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Economics

Where science and spirituality enter the practical domain

A research area for welfare economics, financial economics, and related questions at the intersection of values, institutions, incentives, and human flourishing.

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Publications & Preprints

A Personal Finance PDE Whose Aggregation Yields the Black-Scholes Equation

Authors: A. Chawla 2025 Status: Zenodo Preprint

This note proposes a partial differential equation for individual personal finance decisions and shows how aggregating across many such individual PDEs recovers the classical Black-Scholes equation of option pricing.

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Investment in STEM: The Vaccine for Tariffs

Authors: A. Chawla 2026 Status: Zenodo Preprint

This note argues that sustained investment in science and engineering education and research is a more durable response to trade shocks like tariffs than short-term protectionist measures.

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Structured Atypical Sets and Information Economics

Authors: A. Chawla 2026 Status: Zenodo Preprint

This note connects the information-theoretic notion of structured atypical sets to questions in information economics, exploring how deviations from typical outcomes carry economic value.

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A Utility-theoretic Asymptotic Equipartition Property and the Geometric Coding Theory of Risk

Authors: A. Chawla 2026 Status: Zenodo Preprint

This note develops a utility-theoretic version of the asymptotic equipartition property from information theory, and applies the resulting geometric coding perspective to the analysis of risk.

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Entropic Ecstasy: On the Commodification of Entropy

Authors: A. Chawla 2026 Status: Zenodo Preprint

This note reflects on entropy as an economic good in its own right, considering what it means for order, disorder, and information to be produced, exchanged, and valued.

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How This Research Integrates

Economics is included as a practical research area for studying welfare, finance, institutions, and values-based decision making without separating material systems from ethical and contemplative questions.