Library · September 2026
The argument, in public.
The Institute’s founding publication is a working paper, released for citation, critique, and academic comment. Appendix A, the formal model, supplies the propositions. A summary is the short reading. None of the three is a final conclusion.
The Peace Dividend Mandate
A structural framework for incentivizing world peace through market mechanisms and conflict externality pricing
The founding working paper of the Peace Economy Institute, with Appendix A. Externality pricing for armed conflict, and the Lobby Inversion Principle.
A Formal Model of Externality Correction under Producer Lobbying
The structural core of the Peace Dividend Mandate
Appendix A to the working paper. Propositions on linear Pigouvian failure, convex correction, lobby inversion, and pass-through under a nested information asymmetry.
The Peace Dividend Mandate
A structural framework for pricing conflict externalities
A short companion to the working paper: the problem, the ratio schedule, the three theoretical claims, and the scale of the obligation.
How to cite
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