Acemoglu & Robinson
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.
Edition read. Why Nations Fail — deep read.
What we took
The empirical survivability manual and sharpest self-warning. Inclusive-vs-extractive is adopted as the master lens; both pluralism and centralization are required; the Statute-of-Laborers test — cushion the person, never freeze the position — is the creative-destruction criterion; and the virtuous/vicious circles, iron-law-drift, resource-curse and capture-brittleness detectors are the survivability payload. Rent-to-commons is "vest before the windfall" (Botswana vs Sierra Leone).
Where we diverge — and how we answer
Absorbs its one challenge — "you cannot engineer prosperity" — via an enactment precondition and the simulation-as-sabotage-map, re-founding sensing as a constraint on power, not an ignorance hypothesis.
The net position
The most confirmatory source in the register — no founding principle overturned.
Every position is read at the source. See the whole register on Lineage & Critique, or the doctrine itself in The System.