Global trade and wars are basically just physical reactions to the fact that the Earth is a ball and not a flat map.
March 26, 2026
Original Paper
Topological Global Economics: Geometric Equilibrium and Structural Buckling on a Closed
SSRN · 6196858
The Takeaway
Most economic models treat the world as an infinite flat space, but this study uses planetary geometry to show that trade acts as a 'pressure valve' and war as 'structural buckling' caused by the physical constraints of a closed surface. It suggests economic 'fault lines' are predictable geometric stabilities rather than just political choices.
From the abstract
<div> This paper proposes "Topological Global Economics," a dimensional expansion of "Governance Engineering"—previously established for regional resource cycles—to a planetary scale. <span>We formulate the "Flat-Earth Fallacy" inherent in contemporary macroeconomics, which assumes an infinite space where entropy can be discarded externally, ignoring the physical constraints of the Earth's finite surface area (4²). On a closed Riemannian manifold, the dynamic N-Body Problem of economic agents ex