The Institutions of the Autonomous Civilisation : Governance and Economics Beyond the Consumption World

The Institutions of the Autonomous Civilisation: Governance and Economics Beyond the Consumption World

A Framework for Governance, Value, and Stewardship in the Post-Scarcity Era

Human civilisation is crossing a threshold. For two centuries, industrial institutions organised society around scarcity, labour, bureaucracy, and consumption. But autonomy, abundance, and planetary constraint have rendered these foundations obsolete. The institutions that once stabilised the world now struggle to coordinate it.

In this landmark twelfth scroll, Temesgen Muleta-Erena presents a sovereign framework for understanding - and redesigning - the governance and economic systems of the autonomous era. Drawing on behavioural economics, institutional theory, cybernetics, indigenous strategy, and planetary stewardship, he argues that the industrial republic cannot survive the rise of autonomous coordination, zero-marginal-cost production, and long-horizon civilisational planning.

Across ten modular essays, Muleta-Erena diagnoses the collapse of the consumption world and outlines the architecture of the Autonomous Republic - a governance system built on abundance, regenerative economics, polycentric institutions, and human-autonomy collaboration. He shows how rights, responsibilities, legitimacy, and value must be redefined for a civilisation no longer organised around labour or scarcity.

This book is not a manifesto. It is a civilisational blueprint - a diagnostic map for policymakers, scholars, technologists, and future stewards of the autonomous world. It offers a rigorous, ceremonial, and long-horizon vision of governance and economics beyond consumption, beyond extraction, and beyond the industrial imagination.

The Institutions of the Autonomous Civilisation is a foundational text for anyone seeking to understand the next operating system of human civilisation.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Temesgen Muleta-Erena is a sovereign publisher, modular essayist, and ceremonial infrastructure theorist. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of West London and an MA from the University of East Anglia. His work integrates behavioural economics, indigenous strategy, and epistemic modelling to engineer legacy-driven publishing systems and long-horizon civilisational frameworks.

Muleta-Erena is the author of eleven prior volumes, including The Time-Tested Republic, Beyond the Sun, Macroeconomics Beyond GDP, Institutional Entropy, Experimental Microeconomics from Daily Life (Volumes I & II), Game Theory in Indigenous Strategy, The Secret Economist, Scrolls on Experimental Microeconomics and the Pen-State Paradox, The Game of Strategic Legacy, and Beyond Labour: How Knowledge Becomes the New Engine of Value.

The Institutions of the Autonomous Civilisation: Governance and Economics Beyond the Consumption World is his twelfth scroll - a culmination of his work on governance, value, and stewardship in the post-scarcity era.

Temesgen Muleta-Erena is an economist, modular essayist, and sovereign publisher whose work blends behavioural economics, thermodynamic modelling, and indigenous governance into reproducible frameworks for institutional reform. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of West London and an MA in Economics from the University of East Anglia (UEA). As founder of TC Press (The Codex Press), Temesgen specializes in modular, dignified publishing that treats each book as a civic artifact and each essay as a scroll. His eleven titles span experimental microeconomics, institutional diagnostics, thermodynamic modelling, and indigenous strategy. His works include The Time Tested Republic, Institutional Entropy, Beyond the Sun, Experimental Microeconomics from Daily Life (Volumes 1 & 2), Game Theory in Indigenous Strategy, The Secret Economist, Scrolls on Experimental Microeconomics and the Pen State Paradox, Beyond Labour, and Macroeconomics Beyond GDP. Temesgen's doctoral thesis has been catalogued and requested across prestigious universities worldwide, including Oxford, Harvard, MIT, the University of California system, Oslo, Stockholm, Toronto, UNAM in Mexico, and other leading research institutions. His academic reach extends further through co authored chapters and contributions to books by other scholars, reflecting his commitment to collaborative inquiry and epistemic stewardship. His publishing ethic emphasizes typographic precision, archival legitimacy, and sovereign independence.