Speaking in Decades

PPP-LHCPublic Finance

Diagnosticstests the theory against one real system

—working paper

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Public finance lacks a conceptual language for capital that must operate across long time horizons.

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

Key termsTemporal Vocabulary · Capital Continuity · Mission Cycles · Fiscal Cycles · Substitution Mechanisms · Long-Horizon Capital

In the canonprobetests the theory against one real system

No paper yetSpeaking in Decades: Why Public Capital Lacks a Temporal Vocabulary is a working paper with no SSRN record yet. Said plainly rather than linked to a record that does not exist.

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Also in Diagnostics

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

The Missing Constitution of MarketsMECMarket Architecture→The Accounting Blind SpotPPP-ABSPublic Finance→Why Institutions ForgetWIFTemporal Architecture→

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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.→