Investigations into the relationships responsible for the success and failure of nations. This investigation was prompted after reading numerous references on the subject and perceiving that *Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty* by Acemoglu and Robinson seem to make a great deal of sense.

WIP based on thedig Jan 2025 Daniel Denvir and Michael Denning's podcasts on Policing the crisis and Stuart Hall's Marxism and SH writings on representation and decoding/encoding