Framework of Opportunity Resistance and Curvature Economics (FORCE)

This paper introduces the Framework of Opportunity Resistance and Curvature Economics (FORCE)—a field-theoretic model for analyzing how economic behavior emerges within a dynamically evolving topography of opportunity and constraint. Rather than treating agents as isolated optimizers within equilibrium-based systems, FORCE embeds them in a fluid field shaped by resistance, influence, and differential access—where capital, policy, and social signals distort the flow of opportunity itself.By conceptualizing emergent effort, asymmetrical opportunity, and systemic strain as geometric features of a socioeconomic field, FORCE enables new formulations of economic behavior that account for both agency and structural impedance. Constructs such as economic curvature, opportunity resistance, nexus distortion, and emergence coefficients provide a tensorial language for describing how tension accumulates and resolves across uneven social terrain.