Continuism: The Economic Coherence Model for a Productive, Transparent, and Regenerative Civilization

Continuism is a civilisational economic framework proposing a structural redesign of how capital is created, allocated, and legitimised. It argues that the central failure of modern economies is not scarcity but misalignment: wealth compounds independently of productive, social, and ecological contribution, while institutional trust erodes and agentic AI displaces labour at scale without continuity safeguards. The framework introduces the Continuist System of Transparency and Motion (CTSM), comprising: a three-bucket wealth circulation engine distinguishing protected reserves from circulatory surplus; Aligned Allocation Vectors enabling multi-layer return measurement across fiscal, public, infrastructure, environmental, continuity, and innovation returns; the Continuist Credit and Allocation Module (CCAM), a credit system tied to future productivity rather than collateral; the Labour Continuity Module (LCM), a structural response to AI-driven displacement; the Coherence Index, a nine-dimension composite metric with an epistemic commons floor condition; and UME, a flow-biased programmable monetary layer anchored to productive capacity rather than geopolitical forces. This working paper is Version 1.0. It is explicitly presented as falsifiable and designed for phased pilot implementation. Four open research problems are named and collaborators are invited: FPU operationalisation, Flow Authority constitutional design, pre-registered falsification conditions, and AAV-CCAM interaction modelling.