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Phase 6 · Aug 2026
Phase 6: Knowledge & Institutions
Emergent Order vs Designed Order
Core Question
Is order emergent from below, or designed from above?
/// Reading List
Governing the Commons (Elinor Ostrom)
Why Nations Fail (Daron Acemoglu)
Seeing Like a State (James C. Scott)
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Thomas Kuhn)
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (David Graeber)
The Wisdom of Crowds (James Surowiecki)
/// Interactive Works 2
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Order from Below Commons Lab
Commons Arena, Money Origins, Crowd Wisdom Lab, Cascade Simulator — four modules on how order emerges spontaneously from chaos
Canvas 2D D3.js Agent Simulation
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Order from Above Institution Lab
Institution Scorecard, Critical Juncture Map, Legibility Simulator, Paradigm Network — four modules on how institutions shape national destinies
Canvas 2D SVG D3.js