Living Systems for the Global Economy: Why Economic Design Must Follow the Logic of Life

This white paper states a living-systems method for designing the global economy, originated in this programme by Jude Onemolease. The method is not "add sustainability to a machine model." It is to design economic systems as living systems: regeneration, circulation, edges, feedback, diversity, and coherence across scales. TRC, LNP, PEE, SOS, ultrastructure, and the G-layer remain companion objects. This paper is the method that tells a designer which living properties to copy and which to refuse. The paper supplies a canonical definition; a standard modal representation; a contrast of machine and living-system models; properties to copy and properties not to copy; design rules; relation to regenerative-economics literature; industry cases; a practitioner principle set; and a research programme. Organism language is used in the systems sense. The argument is universal and non-sectarian.