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Axiocracy: Rule by Value Created is an essay series by Jakub Bareš, published with ENSI in September 2026.

The argument draws on a research library of 129 primary documents across fifteen angles: how political concepts are coined and how they drift; philosophical and economic theories of value; desert theory; valuation and measurement; contribution accounting; public value and measures beyond GDP; technocracy and algorithmic governance; the sociology of quantification; value alignment in AI; commons and peer-value economies; alternative economic systems; the strongest critiques of rule by measured value; and the institutions that have already tried something like it.

Every factual claim in the series traces back to a document in that library. The figures on productivity and pay come from the Economic Policy Institute. The commons evidence comes from Ostrom and from Cox, Arnold and Villamayor-Tomás. The health-financing evidence comes from Porter, the Center for Global Development and the World Bank. The impact-bond results come from Brookings and the K4D helpdesk. The Singapore figures come from the government’s 2012 White Paper on ministerial salaries, and the alignment research from Anthropic, the Collective Intelligence Project, and Pan and colleagues.

Axiocracy is a proposal, not a doctrine. Criticism, counter-evidence and field reports from anyone who tries the charter are the most useful things you can send.