Jason Miklian, New ResearchNew publications, working papers, and concepts from Jason Miklian, Senior Researcher at the University of Oslo. Business and peace, polycrisis, fragile states, AI governance.https://miklian.org/2026-04-14T00:00:00ZJason Miklianhttps://miklian.org/jason.miklian@globe.uio.noCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Right Diagnosis, Wrong Prescriptions? Testing Ten of Karl Marx's Hypotheses Against Twenty-First-Century Datahttps://miklian.org/papers/right-diagnosis-wrong-prescriptions-testing-marx-hypotheses-21st-century-data2026-04-14T00:00:00Z2026-04-14T00:00:00ZTen Marxist hypotheses tested on 21st-century panel data covering 183 countries. Economic diagnostics hold up strongly (mean .516); political predictions score far weaker (.300). Institutional design, not historical inevitability, mediates whether economic exploitation produces political consequences.A Problem of the Present: What Artificial Intelligence Tools Can (and Can't) Deliver for Business Under Crisis and Political Instabilityhttps://miklian.org/papers/problem-of-the-present-ai-tools-business-crisis-political-instability2026-04-14T00:00:00Z2026-04-13T00:00:00ZAI tools synthesize the recent past and extrapolate probabilistic futures, but struggle with three epistemic demands instability places on decision-makers. Algorithmic mediation renders the most consequential stakeholders structurally undetectable. Local knowledge networks function as an insurance policy against catastrophic misreading at a fraction of the cost of algorithmic failure.What is an Academic Article For? The Production of Scholarly Work and its Meaning in an Agentic AI Worldhttps://miklian.org/papers/what-is-an-academic-article-for-scholarly-work-agentic-ai2026-04-04T00:00:00Z2026-03-15T00:00:00ZSeven-part typology of scholarly activities mapped against AI capability, with empirical analysis of 2,750 articles showing AI linguistic markers doubling across social science journals.Digital Governance in Hybrid Regimes: How Global Social Media Platforms Navigate the Space Between Democracy and Authoritarianismhttps://miklian.org/papers/digital-governance-in-hybrid-regimes-social-media-platforms-democracy-authoritarianism2026-03-01T00:00:00Z2026-03-01T00:00:00ZDevelops a "worst of both worlds" framework showing how hybrid regimes deploy authoritarian digital control through formally democratic legal mechanisms.A New Digital Divide? Coder Worldviews, the 'Slop Economy,' and Democracy in the Age of AIhttps://miklian.org/papers/a-new-digital-divide-coder-worldviews-the-slop-economy-and-democracy-in-the-age2026-02-15T00:00:00Z2026-02-15T00:00:00ZIntroduces the slop economy and coder worldviews as analytical concepts for the political economy of AI in the Global South.Business Survival Strategies in a Polycrisis: SME Experiences from Beirut, Lebanonhttps://miklian.org/papers/business-survival-strategies-in-a-polycrisis-sme-experiences-from-beirut-lebanon2025-09-01T00:00:00Z2025-09-01T00:00:00ZBeirut SMEs surviving polycrisis employed four distinctive strategies: hyper-localization, rapid revenue diversification, fierce team protection, and active community partnerships.Unlocking the Peace Premium: An Evidence-Based Review of the Potentials and Pitfalls of Private Sector Finance for Peacebuildinghttps://miklian.org/papers/unlocking-the-peace-premium-an-evidence-based-review-of-the-potentials-and2025-06-01T00:00:00Z2025-06-01T00:00:00ZDefines and operationalizes the peace premium, the economic returns generated when private sector investment actively contributes to conflict transformation.