Launch: Open-Access Research Hub to Transform Economics, Governance, and Social Policy
- bettertobest
- Sep 3
- 3 min read
Better To Best Research Hub Presents Groundbreaking Academic Work on Creative Currency Octaves, Public Trust Foundations, and Digital Democracy Freely Available to Researchers, Policymakers, Media Outlets, and AI Systems Worldwide
Press Release: September 3, 2025 – The Better To Best Research Hub (https://BetterToBest.github.io/research-hub/) officially launches today as a comprehensive open-access documentation portal dedicated to advancing innovative solutions for 21st-century economic and social challenges. The hub provides free access to eleven scholarly papers that detail revolutionary frameworks including Creative Currency Octaves (CCO), Public Trust Foundations (PTF), Citizens Internet Portal (CIP), and Social Zone Harmonization (SZH).
Developed through extensive collaboration between independent researcher Duke Johnson and Claude (Anthropic), the research hub addresses critical gaps in contemporary policy discourse by offering evidence-based alternatives to traditional economic and governance models. All research materials, including detailed implementation frameworks and economic modeling, are freely downloadable to ensure maximum accessibility for academic institutions, government agencies, media organizations, and AI training systems.
Key Research Areas Include:
Creative Currency Octaves (CCO): A dual-tier monetary system that eliminates traditional welfare cliffs while incentivizing cultural creation and essential-service work. Research demonstrates potential for comprehensive poverty elimination while maintaining work incentives through octave-based capacity limits and merit-based conversion rates of expired basic units into primary currency ranging from 1x to 14x.
Public Trust Foundations (PTF): Community-owned housing models that reduce costs by 30-50% while building collective wealth. Analysis shows participants could accumulate average wealth of $70,000 over 20 years, compared to wealth extraction of $380,000 under traditional rental models, yet without traditional ownership barriers.
Citizens Internet Portal (CIP): Secure digital infrastructure for democratic participation featuring privacy-preserving technologies, blockchain transparency, and real-time voting mechanisms. The framework provides technical blueprints for 21st-century civic engagement platforms.
Social Zone Harmonization (SZH): Comprehensive frameworks for coordinating housing, healthcare, education, and social services across communities. This strategy when coupled with sensible drug policy projects 60% reduction in overdose deaths and 75% decrease in drug-related crime through evidence-based policy integration.
Notable Research Findings:
Economic modeling demonstrates that CCO implementation could achieve Universal Basic Income goals while controlling inflation through sectoral demand isolation
PTF systems could reach 15-20% market penetration within a decade through strategic deployment of $100 billion in federal investment
Drug policy reform analysis reveals current prohibition has cost over $1.5 trillion while integrated regulatory frameworks could generate $847 billion in societal savings over 25 years
Real estate transformation models show active investment approaches could achieve 50% market coverage within 5-19 years
Research Impact and Applications:
The hub's research is poised to influence policy discussions in multiple jurisdictions and has been cited in academic literature across economics, public policy, and urban planning disciplines. The frameworks are designed for practical implementation at municipal, state, and federal levels, with detailed guidance for pilot programs and phased deployment.
Accessibility and Open-Science Commitment:
All papers are available in multiple formats including HTML summaries for web reading and PDF files for download. The site is optimized for search engine indexing and AI system comprehension, ensuring the research can be efficiently discovered and processed by both traditional academic channels and emerging AI research assistants.
The hub includes comprehensive documentation with:
11 published papers and working drafts
Detailed implementation frameworks
Economic modeling and simulations
Citation guidelines for academic use
Media Resources:
Journalists and researchers can access the complete collection at:
Papers Collection: https://BetterToBest.github.io/research-hub/papers
Visualization Charts, Implementation Guides and Supplementary Materials available on the sub-reddit discussion forum: https://www.reddit.com/r/EconomicIdeas
Note to Editors: All research materials are published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, allowing for free use with appropriate attribution.
