Latest Thinking.
From Coolnomics® insights to pulse highlights, strategy frameworks to podcast episodes - we share what we’re seeing, sensing, and building.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and the Cultural Logic of Coolnomics®
Hegel’s philosophy helps explain why resonance precedes revenue and why cultural shifts always reorganise economic systems.
Adam Smith Through a Coolnomics® Lens
Smith built the foundations of modern capitalism. Coolnomics® builds on that foundation but reframes what truly moves markets in the 21st century.
Emotional Intelligence: The Undervalued Engine of Market Power
Emotion drives what people buy, how they spend, who they trust and where capital flows.
The Failings of Neoliberalism: A Coolnomics® Perspective
Neoliberalism promised freedom, efficiency and prosperity. What it delivered, tells a very different story.
Cultural Relevance: How to Build Products and Brands That Resonate
Relevance is no longer optional. It is strategic currency.
The Long Game: Building Regenerative and Sustainable Value
Speed is seductive - but longevity is what matters. At the heart of Coolnomics® is a call to redefine value.
From Resonance to Revenue: Designing for Commercial Viability
Cool ideas are not enough. In fact, they’re everywhere. What matters is what sticks, what spreads and what scales.
Realness as Strategy: Why Trust Is the Currency That Matters
The most powerful brands, leaders and institutions are not the loudest. They’re the realest.
The Capital, The Behavioural, The Cultural - and Coolnomics®
Capitalism moves money. Behavioural economics explains decision-making. Cultural economics explains resonance.
Coolnomics® Manifesto: A Vision for the Next Economy
What if we built the economy around what matters to people?
The Pulse Before the Market: Where is Australia’s Cultural Avant-Garde?
In a world obsessed with outcomes, the avant-garde lives in the unfinished sentence.
David Hume and the Emotional Foundations of Coolnomics®
As Coolnomics® argues that culture, emotion and human behaviour shape economic reality - David Hume is one of its intellectual ancestors.
John Maynard Keynes Through a Coolnomics® Lens
John Maynard Keynes transformed economics by recognising something many of his predecessors underplayed: markets are not always rational.