Agency, Finite Continuance: Social Structures, Economic Expectations, and Human Action in the Preservation of Future Possibility

This book brings together three related studies within the philosophy of Finite Continuance. The first examines social structure, modernity, and globalization through a critical dialogue with Anthony Giddens’s theory of structuration. The second examines expectations, political credibility, poverty, and institutional trust, arguing that persistent instability can erode the horizon within which people plan and act. The third examines the relation between human action, subjective value, and the preservation of future agency through a critical reading of Ludwig von Mises’s praxeology and of economic coordination. Across the three studies, the book defines its central concepts through application criteria and counterexamples, distinguishes organizational persistence from ethical legitimacy, and tests the framework against difficult cases of adaptive domination, self-binding commitment, and emergency suspension. The central claim is that social arrangements should be evaluated partly by whether they preserve the effective ability of people and institutions to learn, recover, contest decisions, and revise their futures. The framework is presented as a developing philosophical programme, with explicit attention to conceptual limits, rival explanations, and the verification that remains to be completed before publication. Keywords: Finite Continuance; social structure; Anthony Giddens; structuration; modernity; globalization; reflexivity; reconfigurative capacity; erosion; future agency; meta-capacity; Threshold of Sufficiency; capacity debt; temporal reconfigurative cost; expectations; institutional credibility; poverty; Human Action; praxeology; subjective value; intergenerational justice