Configuration Economics
A Living Epistemic Work
Value is about what enables future possibilities, not what gets consumed.
A living epistemic work where content can be read at multiple resolutions, each claim carries its epistemic status, and an embedded guide helps you think through the framework at your own depth.
Use it
Read the argument
- Overview The whole structure. Core claims, in the order the essay develops them.
- Essay Value under Physical Constraint: A Framework for Economic Accounting under Thermodynamic Limits.
- Propositions Each node is self-contained and meaningful in isolation.
- Canonical nodes One canonical statement per load-bearing idea.
Test it
- Objections The strongest attacks, and where this work answers them.
- Attack a Premise A claim is not a monolith. Pick it apart at the joint.
- Lineage Predecessors, debts, and where this work adds something.
- Moves The framework, in operation.
- Research Frontier Where the work's current thinking ends. Open questions and live disagreements.
Watch it move
Configuration Economics is my major project for 2026. After this year I'll keep it ticking along, and I hope some of you will come and share the interest.