Systemic Wellbeing and the Multi‑Node Stability Function: A Development Economics Model for Social, Ecological, and Institutional Stability

Temesgen Muleta-Erena (PhD) Economist, Sovereign Publisher, Epistemic Steward

TC Press / The Codex Press, London

Abstract

This paper develops a unified development‑economics framework based on a Multi‑Node Stability Function (MNSF), a mathematical model in which social, ecological, and institutional wellbeing are treated as interdependent components of a single systemic health condition. The model challenges the dominant individual‑centric and GDP‑centric paradigms by demonstrating that development outcomes depend on the minimum health of all 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 the wider environment—the paper illustrates how pre‑scientific societies encoded interdependence as a daily governance mechanism. The MNSF formalises this logic using weakest‑link dynamics, entropy minimisation, and threshold‑based stability conditions. Divergence from systemic wellbeing is shown to generate social inequality, ecological degradation, and institutional entropy. 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.

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