Three papers per volume — formal results preceding publication
Publication Archive
Papers
Each volume in the Pentalogy is accompanied by three papers published in advance of the volume. The papers establish the formal results the volume develops; the volume integrates those results into a complete structural argument. Papers are archived here as permanent citation surfaces.
Volume I — The Admissibility of Economic Science
Paper I — Volume IPublished
The Structural Domain of Economic Science
Establishes the structural domain of economic science by negative elimination. Four candidate characterizations are examined and eliminated in sequence. What survives is a domain that is transformation-conditioned, endogenously modified, path-dependent, relationally conditioned, and reflexive. The paper draws one structural consequence: static characterization is structurally inadequate as a representational strategy for this domain.
Establishes the minimum representational grammar presupposed by any formal apparatus claiming to operate over the forced domain. Three irreducible commitments are extracted — admissibility orientation (A), comparison responsiveness (C), and engagement resolution (R) — and shown to operate conjunctively. The grammar Γ = (A, C, R) under conjunctive operation is fixed as the minimum specification any representational execution over the forced domain must contain.
Places the representational grammar Γ in structural contact with the forced domain and determines the outcome. The conjunctive demand structure is shown to be unsatisfiable; the grammar is architecturally deficient relative to the demands the domain imposes; and under iterative application the incompatibilities recur at every stage without self-correction. These are structurally local determinations about Γ as fixed — not verdicts on whether economic representation is possible in principle.