About The Power Curve

Economics is Power

Who we are, what we believe, and how we work.

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What we believe

The most significant economic and political shifts often take shape while attention is fixed elsewhere. Capital reallocates, technology diffuses, institutions gain or lose the capacity to act, and power accumulates in places the headlines have not yet reached. The Power Curve exists to make those movements legible before they harden into consensus.

The work treats economies, markets, technologies, and cities as complex adaptive systems, where advantage is built and lost through mechanisms rather than events. The questions stay consistent across every piece: where capability is concentrating, which constraints are becoming binding, who can convert resources into operating capacity, and where risk is being mispriced.

That lens runs through everything the publication produces, from long-form reports and strategic memos to briefings and data notes. The goal is a clearer frame for the judgments leaders have to make while the evidence is still incomplete, and a sharper read on where power is moving next.

Brendan Hart

Founder

Brendan Hart

Economist, entrepreneur, and professor

Brendan Hart is an economist and entrepreneur with two decades of executive experience building and scaling organizations that transform how business and government work. He founded The Power Curve to study how markets, institutions, technology, and capital shape economic power.

He has led large-scale transformation efforts across business, government, education, and defense. Through his writing, teaching, and advisory work, Brendan helps leaders use economic intelligence to strengthen institutional capability and build long-term strategic advantage.

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