The Space Headright System: A Diachronic Analysis of First-Mover Elite Formation Mechanisms from Colonial Virginia to Twenty-First-Century Space Resource Law

This study examines how first-mover advantage was converted into durable elite dominance in seventeenth-century colonial Virginia, using this structural logic to critically evaluate twenty-first-century space resource law. Drawing on a Multilayered Frontier Capital Accumulation Model (MFCAM) that in