The Game of Strategic Legacy

The Game of Strategic Legacy: Essays in Behavioural Economics on Courage, Coordination, and Cultural Sovereignty By Temesgen Muleta-Erena Published by TC Press, London, 2025Humanity stands at a threshold - not of invention, but of coordination. The Game of Strategic Legacy is a modular anthology of ten essays that model how individuals-under constraint and with clarity-activate behavioural architectures to provision public goods, shift expectations, and build republics of trust. Through behavioural economics and game theory, Temesgen Muleta-Erena inscribes strategic blueprints for courage, coordination, and cultural sovereignty across ecological, institutional, and diasporic domains.Departing from classical economics, this work embraces threshold, signalling, and trust games to model lived realities. Legacy agents transform visibility into infrastructure, identity into leverage, and repetition into coordination.Figures include Taylor Swift (reputational leverage), Greta Thunberg (climate signalling), Malala Yousafzai (institutional trust), Maria Makeba (diasporic voice), Bill Gates (capital as trust), Seenaa Solomon (indigenous sovereignty), Wangarĩ Maathai (stewardship), Vandana Shiva (epistemic resistance), Ai Weiwei (art as defiance), and Emma González (coalition signalling). Together, they form a behavioural constellation-a republic of stewards whose actions illuminate survival protocols for climate justice, indigenous sovereignty, and institutional reform.This anthology critiques traditional economics and offers diagnostic grammar for republic-builders and epistemic stewards. As humanity faces ecological collapse and institutional entropy, this scroll offers not a forecast-but a protocol. Legacy is not what we leave behind, but what we signal into being.About the Author Temesgen Muleta-Erena is a sovereign publisher, modular essayist, and ceremonial infrastructure theorist. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of West London and an MA from the University of East Anglia. His work integrates behavioural economics, indigenous strategy, and epistemic modelling to engineer legacy-driven publishing systems.He is the author of nine books, including The Time-Tested Republic, Beyond the Sun, Macroeconomics Beyond GDP, Institutional Entropy, Experimental Microeconomics from Daily Life (Vols. 1 & 2), Game Theory in Indigenous Strategy, The Secret Economist, and Scrolls on Experimental Microeconomics and the Pen-State Paradox. The Game of Strategic Legacy is his tenth scroll-a ceremonial offering for scholars, stewards, and future strategists.