Lineage & Critique

The Republic

Justice-as-harmony is the doctrine's operation; the philosopher-king is refused — grant the pilot, refuse his throne.

Politics

The middle-mass survivability theorem and the leisure-capability floor; adopt the telos, decline the epistemology; naturalised hierarchy rejected.

The Analects

Trust as the load-bearing survivability variable, the rectification of names, harmony-not-uniformity; the Mandate's conditionality kept, its cosmology declined.

Leviathan

The enforcement lemma and the laws of nature → the Charter; absolute sovereignty answered by the Charter-Apex — a rule, not a person.

Discourses on Livy · The Prince

The realist survivability manual and the effectual-truth method; raison d'état answered by the inviolable Charter — effectual-truth in mechanism, deontological at the boundary.

The Wealth of Nations

Ancestor on rent, earned property, and the knowledge-problem limit that makes the doctrine correct-and-release; money and fiscal design adapted.

Capital I–IV · The Manifesto

Supplies the rent-capture engine and the fetishism critique; the labour theory of value is declined from within, revolution declined via his own theorems.

The General Theory

The demand engine and the euthanasia of the rentier; "socialise investment" answered as a purer application of his own analysis.

The Great Transformation

Fictitious commodities and the double movement; re-embed-via-planning answered by correct-the-frame, free-the-interior.

Principles of Political Economy

Distribution is a human institution (grounds the founding move); the rent/profit meter, the displacement→rent self-funding dividend, and the stationary state rooting the meaning axis.

Progress and Poverty

Rent-to-commons is core doctrine, generalized from land to AI-compute, data and network-effects — "the new land".

The Constitution of Liberty

The knowledge-problem and rule-of-law spine; the strongest objection — an indefinite aim confers no limit — absorbed by making the vector diagnostic, never operative.

The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Re-founds attestation as the impartial, well-informed spectator and the coercion line as justice-vs-beneficence; its one internal critique — aggregated sympathy launders rank — is designed against.

On Liberty

The harm principle is the coercion gate; grounds the epistemic axis (annotate-not-censor) and the meaning axis; the permanent critic installed against a benevolent value-sensor.

A Theory of Justice

The closest ancestor in the register: the constitutional spine and the veil, imported as a graduated debiasing vote; diverges on sufficientarian floors not maximin, and a ten-axis capability metric not primary goods.

Human Action

Individual value is subjective (granted); the leap to "no actionable collective value" is answered — a vote constitutes value as objective-for-governance, and designated harms' effects are objectively counted.

Governing the Commons

The eight design principles as a legitimacy audit; recognize-and-back; the self-governing frame as a first-class third category between market and state.

Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

Institutions-vs-organizations retargets the anti-capture monitor; measurement-cost is the raison d'être of institutions; adaptive efficiency is the named normative criterion.

Thinking in Systems

The doctrine's native discipline: the leverage-point self-audit (govern high, tune low), the physics of hysteresis, and the system-traps as failure-mode vocabulary.

Why Nations Fail

Inclusive-vs-extractive as the master lens and the empirical survivability manual; the "you cannot engineer prosperity" challenge absorbed via an enactment precondition and the simulation-as-sabotage-map.