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 · The System.