Why Provenance?
Why causal history matters when evaluating economic outcomes.
Knowledge network
Research Foundations
A static, interlinked knowledge network for exploring provenance, merit, incentives, measurement, and the proposed MPS/PBS framework.
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Merit and Desert
Weak versus strong meritocracy and the problem of morally arbitrary advantage.
Advantage Laundering
How antecedent advantages can emerge from markets looking like individual desert.
Markets and Incentives
Why the framework aims to preserve price signals, voluntary exchange, and productive incentives.
Measurement and Limits
Provenance auditing, contribution decomposition, uncertainty, and epistemic humility.
Policy, Law and Regulation
Public-facing legal, regulatory, auditability, privacy, and classification questions.
Glossary
Machine-readable definitions for the core concepts in the network.