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Book Description

The Secret Economist reveals the hidden choreography of microeconomics in daily life — from broken transport apps and ecological grief to indigenous governance and literary collapse. Across ten sovereign essays, Temesgen Muleta-Erena applies experimental microeconomics and game-theoretic modelling to moments often overlooked by mainstream economics. The result is a republic of thought: a curriculum of coordination, ritual, and epistemic dignity.

This book models:

Infrastructure failure as behavioural distortion Biodiversity as macroeconomic infrastructure Trees as sovereign scrolls of law and memory Knowledge as a thermodynamic multiplier Resilience as strategic calibration under constraint Ceremony as governance and naming as law

Each essay builds a simulation — not of idealized agents, but of real people navigating entropy, exclusion, and uncertainty. Drawing from behavioural economics, thermodynamic ethics, and indigenous systems like Gadaa, Muleta-Erena reframes economics as a sovereign rehearsal of survival.

About the Author Temesgen Muleta-Erena is a sovereign publisher, modular essayist, and ceremonial infrastructure theorist. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of West London and an MA in Economics from the University of East Anglia. He is the author of 7 books, including:

The Time-Tested Republic: Beyond the State — Gadaa as a Living Blueprint for Ethical Governance Beyond the Sun: Humanity's Thermodynamic Republic in the Billion-Year Frontier Macroeconomics Beyond GDP: Introducing EGDP Institutional Entropy: Modelling Collapse and Continuity Experimental Microeconomics from Daily Life, Volumes 1 & 2 Game Theory in Application in Indigenous Strategy.

The Secret Economist is his 8th book — a sovereign offering for scholars, stewards, and citizens committed to epistemic clarity and civic reform.