Assessing The Sustainability Of Interdisciplinary Economic Frameworks

The sustainability of interdisciplinary economic models has become an increasingly urgent concern amid converging global challenges such as climate change, public health crises and digital disruption. Traditional economic approaches often prove insufficient for navigating such complexity, prompting the rise of models that integrate economic, legal, environmental, technological and social dimensions. This paper investigates the sustainability of these models across three interrelated domains: financial structures, institutional design and social inclusion. Drawing on a conceptual–comparative methodology and grounded in case studies from the European Union, South Asia and Africa, the analysis reveals that models are most resilient when financial mechanisms are transparent and accountable, governance is polycentric and adaptive and inclusion is embedded as a core design principle. Importantly, the study highlights that sustainability is not only a technical or institutional challenge, but also a normative one—requiring explicit commitments to equity, distributive justice and participatory governance. However, significant challenges persist in aligning fiscal innovation with fairness, coordinating across levels of governance and operationalizing inclusive processes. These findings underscore the need for interdisciplinary approaches that institutionalize complexity rather than simplify it and call for future research on the role of digital technologies in enabling inclusive, data-driven governance.