Announcing the Third Oikos Substack

Welcome to The Third Oikos, a newsletter about what the good life looks like when technology is reshaping the household.

Oikos is a Greek term that means house, household, or family. The management of household work — oikonomia — is where we get the word “economy.” This project came from an essay by Jon Askonas and Michael Toscano in National Affairs; they argued that history has been dominated by two main forms of household organization and production. But, almost without noticing, we’ve passed into a third form.

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