Capital Exhaustibility

CESIATemporal Theory

Authorityload-bearing — the argument runs through it

—working paper

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Extends the CLS diagnosis by examining how the temporal properties of capital shape institutional authority stability. Finite, discretionary, renewal-dependent capital systematically recreates legitimacy scarcity, while regenerative capital architectures attenuate substitution dynamics.

Where it sits. Links authority collapse to capital structure—the junction between Capital and Authority trunks.

The long-form argument for this work still lives on the existing explainer at /explainer/capital-exhaustibility. This page carries the abstract and the corpus metadata — the frame the argument would move into unchanged.

Key termsCapital Architecture · Institutional Authority · Temporal Design · Governance Stability

In the canonspineload-bearing — the argument runs through it

No paper yetCapital Exhaustibility and the Stability of Institutional Authority is a working paper with no SSRN record yet. Said plainly rather than linked to a record that does not exist.

Nearby in the corpus

Also in Authority

The works either side of this one in the canon order — what it builds on and what builds on it.

Capital–Legitimacy SubstitutionCLSFailure Mode→Constraint Substitution in Family OfficesCSFDAFODiagnosis→Administrative PanicAPGoverning the Panic Window→

Where to go next

Three directions out

Where to go once you have the argument — the paper it comes from, the instrument that measures it, or the next thing it depends on.

Measure itinstrumentsRun the measurement this argument implies against your own institution.→The library65 worksEvery work, by layer, with the argument and the paper side by side.→In the field2 liveWhere the argument has met real money and published dates.→