Jo M. Sekimonyo is a heterodox political economist working outside dominant economic paradigms. He rejects self-contained mathematical abstractions. Instead, he treats economic theory as a practical instrument that must withstand the test of real-world material conditions.
Sekimonyo is the Founder of En Charge and the Chancellor of Université Lumumba. His work is translated into over ten languages, focusing on dismantling the global debt regime and rebuilding institutional architectures around human dignity and collective creativity.
Core Economic & Social Frameworks
Monetary & Global Finance
Global Debt Neutralization: Rejects the global debt system as a tool of postcolonial dependency. He calls for the complete elimination of systemic debt constraints to allow true productive sovereignty.
Ethosism: A structural alternative to both capitalism and socialism. It redefines the corporate firm as an infrastructure for developing human capabilities and positions labor—not capital—as the primary beneficiary of value.
The Monetary Architecture (MA) Framework: Written as a direct critique of both orthodox economics and Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). It argues that nominal currency sovereignty is an illusion if a country's institutional pathways are "structurally dissipative." Printing money (as MMT suggests) without first fixing the structural transmission lines merely accelerates capital flight and economic leakage.
Global Climate Finance: Replaces voluntary pledges and carbon markets with a uniform global consumption contribution model. Funds are distributed directly based on ecological value and subnational stewardship.
Fiscal & State Metrics
Social Contract Ratio (SCR): A quantitative index measuring how states allocate resources between human development (health, education) and institutional preservation (defense, administration).
Fiscal Reciprocity Paradox: Explains how exploitative states maintain high tax extraction with minimal social spending without triggering immediate revolt, challenging traditional social contract theory.
Behavioral & Democratic Models
Propensity to Act: A behavioral threshold model showing that individuals mobilize only when material need, subjective sentiment, and social proximity converge to overcome existential indifference.
Proposition-Weighted Representation (Ideacracy): A democratic model shifting voting from bundled political parties to specific policy propositions, eliminating mandate ambiguity.
"Socialism and Communism have failed, but now Capitalism is failing us."
Jo M. Sekimonyo
