About
Public discourse on the economy loves to treat the financial realities of families and businesses as though they were sporting outcomes, with savings and investments becoming little more than scores to cheer or boo. But here at The Honest Economist, economics starts and ends with real people, the everyday decisions they make, the tradeoffs they manage, and the human stakes behind every insight we share in an increasingly chaotic and expensive world.
It is the sensibility our authors bring to the page, and the reason their work stays close to home.
Meet The Honest Economists
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Kent Bhupathi
Founder, Contributor
Kent draws on his graduate training, leadership experiences, and work as a founder of Market Theory AI to help people understand how economic forces shape their choices under constraint and uncertainty. His research focuses on recessions, financial markets, macroeconomic trends, and household behavior, with a commitment to practical insight. -
Mardoqueo Arteaga
Contributor
Mardoqueo is an applied economist at LinkedIn and researcher whose work examines how people interpret information, respond to uncertainty, and form beliefs about the world around them. His writing draws from experience across policy, consulting, and technology, and explores the ways data and human behavior intersect. -
Melissa Carleton
Contributor
Melissa is an economist who studies how AI is reshaping labour markets and making income through work less reliable. Her work examines the implications for economic stability, income allocation, organisational design, and the emerging structure of the AI-driven economy. She consults, writes, and speaks on these shifts, translating economic mechanisms into practical frameworks.