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Themed bundles of research, built toward a synthesis: the thesis, every paper that tests it, what’s still missing, and the essay that stitches the evidence together.

1 collections · open = still collecting · updated 2026-10-21

5 papers open — still collecting

BNPL / Pay-in-4: the spending button

Point-of-sale installment credit isn't a payment method — it measurably raises total spending, stacks onto expensive debt, and its costs land hardest on the least able to carry them.