ECO.8:1 - Problem frame

Use this pattern when a plan or rule works among closely cooperating participants but fails when carried into wider exchange, or when commercial terms undermine the direct cooperation on which work depends. Start with one consequential interaction and the conditions that make it possible. Identify what must be coordinated directly and what can be connected through more general rules, prices or agreements.

The result is a specific adjustment at that boundary. It need not be a new institution or a complete model of an economy.