axioms

First principles assumed without proof, from which a worldview is deduced. Here, the ground rules of human behaviour underneath economics and politics — treated the way physics treats its laws: not voted on, only discovered, and ignored at one's peril.

Long before Marx and von Mises debated the nature of materialism, the role of the state, and the axioms that drive human behaviour, these fundamental elements mixed and mingled to contextualize livelihoods.

As used in: the-agentic-paradigm