Economic Changes
Scenarios involving different economic systems, trade patterns, and financial developments
What If Streaming Services Never Developed?
Exploring the alternate timeline where digital streaming platforms never disrupted traditional media distribution, leading to profoundly different entertainment industry dynamics, consumer behaviors, and technological trajectories.
What If Structural Adjustment Programs Were Never Implemented?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the controversial IMF and World Bank structural adjustment policies never reshaped developing economies in the 1980s and 1990s, potentially altering global economic development, debt relationships, and the trajectory of the Global South.
What If Student Loans Were Never Created?
Exploring the alternate timeline where government-backed student loan programs never emerged in America, dramatically altering higher education access, institutional development, and economic outcomes across generations.
What If Supply-Side Economics Never Emerged?
Exploring the alternate timeline where supply-side economic theory never gained prominence in the late 1970s, potentially reshaping decades of fiscal policy, political alignments, and global economic development.
What If Surfing Never Became Popular?
Exploring the alternate timeline where surfing remained an obscure Hawaiian practice rather than becoming a global cultural phenomenon, transforming coastal economies, popular culture, and youth movements worldwide.
What If Swansea Developed Different Post-Coal Industries?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Swansea prioritized technology and financial services over traditional manufacturing after coal's decline, potentially transforming this Welsh city into a Celtic Silicon Valley.