Abstract
The absence of a monetary value anchor independent of discretionary issuance remains an unresolved problem of monetary theory. This paper develops a conditional research program: granted the normative premise that civilizational survival is a lexicographically prior meta-constraint, the value anchor can migrate from scarcity to net order creation. We construct the negentropic theory of value, in which value is the net increment of systemic order, and civilization utility theory, in which continuous negentropic creation pursues the mastery of cosmic truth as its ultimate directional goal. The value equation Wτ = k·Eτa·Tτb·Iτc is posited rather than derived from physics; its benchmark case Wτ = √(Eτ·Tτ·Iτ) combines exergy input, non-equilibrium maintenance time, and structural information gain. Existence and uniqueness of the incentive-compatible configuration are established under stated assumptions, including quasi-linear utility, and a second-order welfare-loss bound is derived for calibration errors in the consensus coefficients α. A three-period overlapping-generations model, a general equilibrium with endogenous α (with scenario analysis when assumptions fail), mechanism defenses, and a four-layer measurement blueprint (CRN, a forward-looking research program rather than a presently deployable system) complete the program. Component-level cross-country evidence shows that R&D intensity alone explains 79% of the variance in innovation-output density. H1 provides executed component-level correlational evidence; H2–H5 are designed but not yet executed; the macrostability of a scarcity-free anchor is identified as the central open problem.