Manifesto · Volume I
The Power of Poverty.
The Hidden Intelligence of Scarcity - a philosophical examination of poverty as a curriculum, not a deficit.
Format
Hardcover · eBook · Audible
Pages
144
Release
Nov 19, 2026
Premise
Poverty is not the absence of wealth. It is the presence of a structure that demands a different kind of mind.
Key Themes
- 01Scarcity as a form of knowledge, not a deficit of it.
- 02Why poverty produces a particular kind of strategic intelligence.
- 03The mythology the modern economy tells about the poor - and what it conceals.
- 04What dignity looks like in conditions designed to remove it.
Sample passages
"The poor have survived systems designed to erase them. That is not the absence of intelligence; that is the residue of an enormous, undocumented one."
"Scarcity does not produce smaller decisions. It produces decisions taken at a higher resolution than affluence ever requires."
"To call a man poor is to describe his bank account. It is not yet to describe his mind."
Launch
University of Sheffield
The Power of Poverty is launched at the University of Sheffield. Seats are limited; requests for attendance, press access or a copy signed at the launch are handled by email.
FORTHCOMING
Other projects in preparation.
Volume II · in preparation
The Invention of Identity: Empire, Memory and Control
Volume III · in preparation
Legal Fraud: Licensed Deception
Research · in preparation