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Fiat-denominated money functions as a transferable claim for value where aggregate financial equity is identically zero among economic agents, meaning every monetary claim resolves to an obligation within the system. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.ESTABLISHES_NEW_DIRECTION.

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To establish an explicit ontology of fiat money by modeling monetary relations as transferable claims for value and evaluating systemic equity constraints.

August 23, 2026Open Access

The Zero-Equity Constraint in Monetary Systems

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PMPatrick McGuinness

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Theoretical analysis demonstrates that aggregate financial equity is identically zero among economic agents, indicating that fiat money functions as a relational claim rather than a commodity.

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To establish an explicit ontology of fiat money by modeling monetary relations as transferable claims for value and evaluating systemic equity constraints.
Applied Adolf Reinach’s theory of claim–obligation correlativity to state fiat and commercial bank credit structures.
Derived formal settlement relations and simplex-based geometric representations through a family of admissible zero-sum credit transformations.
Aggregate financial equity is identically zero across economic agents because every monetary claim corresponds to a distributed obligation within the domain.
Monetary authorities carry no real economic settlement obligations and are mathematically excluded from the agent set.
Taxation operates as the primary institutional redemption mechanism through which fiat monetary claims are settled and retired against real economic activity.

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Patrick McGuinness (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8aae0f7677a34114446d09 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22037465

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Theoretical analysis demonstrates that aggregate financial equity is identically zero among economic agents, indicating that fiat money functions as a relational claim rather than a commodity.

The Zero-Equity Constraint in Monetary Systems

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The Zero-Equity Constraint in Monetary Systems

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