Systemic Wellbeing and the Multi-node Stability Function:

A Development Economics Model for Social, Ecological, and Institutional Stability

📘 New SSRN Release: Systemic Wellbeing and the Multi‑Node Stability Function

TC Press is pleased to announce the SSRN distribution of Temesgen Muleta‑Erena’s seventh research essay, Systemic Wellbeing and the Multi‑Node Stability Function: A Development Economics Model for Social, Ecological, and Institutional Stability.

This work is now publicly available through SSRN’s global research network:

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https://ssrn.com/abstract=6981518  

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Overview

Systemic Wellbeing introduces a unified development‑economics framework built on the Multi‑Node Stability Function (MNSF)—a mathematical model that treats social, ecological, and institutional wellbeing as interdependent components of a single systemic health condition. The paper challenges GDP‑centric and individual‑centric paradigms by demonstrating that development outcomes depend on the minimum stability across critical nodes, not the average performance of isolated sectors.

Drawing on the Oromo concept of nagaa—an indigenous systems‑health logic in which personal wellbeing is inseparable from the wellbeing of family, community, animals, land, and environment—the paper shows how pre‑scientific societies encoded interdependence as daily governance. The MNSF formalises this logic using weakest‑link dynamics, entropy minimisation, and threshold‑based stability conditions.

Divergence from systemic wellbeing is shown to generate:

The paper extends the model to the context of autonomous civilisation, arguing that modern intelligence systems enable humanity to operationalise interdependence at planetary scale. Integrating indigenous systems logic with complexity science provides a viable foundation for sustainable development in the twenty‑first century and beyond.

Citation

Muleta‑Erena, Temesgen. Systemic Wellbeing and the Multi‑Node Stability Function: A Development Economics Model for Social, Ecological, and Institutional Stability. TC Press/The Codex Press, June 23, 2026. SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6981518.

Keywords

Institutional Entropy; Systemic Wellbeing; Thermodynamics of Governance; Complex Systems; Resilience Theory; Weakest‑link Models; Institutional Design; Stability Thresholds; Interdependence; Governance Systems; Collective Action.