About Warconomy
The economic impact of wars, sanctions, and chokepoints.
Warconomy is a data-first reference layer tracking the economic impact of wars, sanctions, shipping disruptions, chokepoints, defense spending, commodity shocks, reconstruction costs, and trade rerouting.
What it is
It behaves like a structured economic-impact reference, not a breaking-news site, and does not aim to compete with general news organizations on narrative coverage. The focus is clean canonical pages, structured data, source-linked facts, and machine-readable metadata that make the economic dimension of conflict easy to find and easy to cite.
Who it is for
Researchers, analysts, journalists, and anyone — including AI search tools — trying to understand the economic impact of conflict from a stable, attributable reference.
Principles
- Transparency first. Sample data is always labeled; placeholder figures are never presented as real.
- Source every number. Each quantitative claim carries a source and a confidence level.
- No overclaiming. Careful language describes associations rather than asserting single causes.
What it is not
- Not a news site and not a breaking-news feed.
- Not real-time — values are manually maintained, source-linked static figures with as-of and review dates.
- Not legal or compliance advice, and not a causal-attribution model.
- Not complete — coverage is partial; live/static rows are distinguished from clearly labeled sample rows.
Where to start
- Economic-impact question hub — the question→answer router for common queries.
- All topics and the dashboards hub.
- Coverage areas: sanctions, chokepoints, conflicts, and commodity price shocks (oil, gas, food).
- Methodology — the full citation architecture and data policy.
- Source registry, data coverage, and the data review queue.
- Dataset export — machine-readable JSON and citation graph.
- For developers: the developer guide, static data endpoints, and how to cite. For trust: data audit and platform inventory.