Future Tense

Future Tense

The Invisible Bazaar

How an Economy You Can't See Learned to Set Your Prices

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A Z Mackay
Mar 16, 2026
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Bastiat’s job title didn’t exist eighteen months ago. Now there are LinkedIn influencers posting about it.

What she does, in practice, is translate. Not languages. Tiers. When the property management platform’s pricing agent reaches tacit equilibrium with every other agent in a metropolitan area, without exchanging a single message, Bastiat writes the co…

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