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In 1937 the economist Ronald Coase asked why companies exist at all, and he won a Nobel Prize for that work.

Type HISTORICAL · truth-evaluable: yes · status at snapshot: ACTIVE · created seq 3343

a conjunction joins clauses that may be separately evaluable

Referenced 191 times: checked 5, looked up by assistants 1, viewed 107, shared 78. A count of attention, not evidence.

Topics

Economics · 03192ed8 Modern · 03192ed8

Assessment

Supported

Score: 0.9995 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745

4 of 4 review checks done · 4 counted

5 independent evidence lineages · review checks 4 of 4 · stability HIGH

Main unresolved issue: 10 counted evidence items have no independence review; repeats of one origin may be counted as several coverage:508ed0e7-d2da-8dc5-a534-7adfb2552c79

Not yet independently audited.A quoted passage from nobelprize.org and python-advanced.quantecon.org was not found on the page when Galedra fetched it.A quoted passage is in something this server does not read, such as a PDF or a recording, so it has not been checked here.

Why?

Strongest counted support: Coase's original 1937 paper explicitly asks why a firm emerges at all and attributes its emergence partly to the costs of using the price mechanism. weight 1.800000 evidence

Suppressed as dependent: The excerpt says that in 1937 economist Ronald Coase asked why companies exist at all and won the Nobel Prize for this work; the name is transcript-garbled but recognizable.; The passage says economist Ronald Coase asked in 1937 why companies exist at all and won the Nobel Prize for it.

What would most change this: One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported.

Hide calculation

0.9995 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 · state Supported · Review checks: 4 of 4 · stability HIGH · 13 sources, 5 independent lineages

Model ledger-default@0.3.0 (the default model, not the answer) · snapshot 27745 · trace sha256:135236587dfb2c27dcbbc1e5e1ee02ebc1485e30b1b9b599f150d9a2cf01ca78

Last changed at entry seq 13254; nothing logged since has borne on this claim.

How the number was reached

Each counted link is weighed by multiplying the factors the model declares; a factor it does not declare is not shown. Every factor name below links to what that number means.

LinkWorkingWeightCounted as
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a6fe5fdc support relevance DIRECT 2.0 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 0 steps, 1 − 0.15 × 0 1.000000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1 1.800000 1.800000
e61b5eb5 qualify relevance DIRECT 2.0 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 0 steps, 1 − 0.15 × 0 1.000000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1 1.800000 0.000000 (non directional)
4824d4dd qualify relevance STRONG 1.2 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 1 step, 1 − 0.15 × 1 0.850000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1 0.918000 0.000000 (non directional)
9e715751 support relevance DIRECT 2.0 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 0 steps, 1 − 0.15 × 0 1.000000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1 1.800000 1.800000
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9f018dba qualify relevance STRONG 1.2 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 1 step, 1 − 0.15 × 1 0.850000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1 0.918000 0.000000 (non directional)
b3f40b03 support relevance DIRECT 2.0 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 0 steps, 1 − 0.15 × 0 1.000000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1 1.800000 1.800000
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b8b9d06a support relevance DIRECT 2.0 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 1 step, 1 − 0.15 × 1 0.850000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance SELF 0.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1 0.000000 0.000000 (dependent strongest only, kept 5fcb4e9c)

prior 0.50 → log-odds 0.000000 + 7.659000 (the counted weights) = 7.659000 → probability 0.9995

Under neighbouring settings of the same model: 0.9953 to 1.0000, a spread of 0.0047.

Half-even rounding, six places for weights and four for the probability. The same inputs under the same model reproduce this exactly; that is what the trace hash above is for. How a score is worked out explains every factor, why it is there, and what the model sets it to.

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Checked as part of

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Evidence for

Evidence against

None.

Qualifications

Suppressed as dependent

EvidenceGroupKept instead
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Inferences

Concluded from

None.

Used as a premise in

None.

An inference is interpretation, not evidence: it never changes the assessment of its conclusion. Each premise is a claim with its own evidence.

Threads

None. Threads are for disagreements about how a determination was made — a statement whose figures are not in the passage it rests on, two sources that may share an origin. Something about the world belongs in the evidence above.

Claim edges

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Review checklist

Review checks: 4 of 4

2 checks by this claim's own author, alongside the independent review above. 1 QUALIFIER CHECK · 1 EVIDENCE VERIFICATION. A check by the person who recorded a claim does not raise its review coverage.

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opposing search doneyes490975f8
independence reviewedyes41e9ae73
primary source reviewedyes99da48e2, a6fe5fdc, 9f018dba, b3f40b03

Summary

Supported. The main support is: Coase's original 1937 paper explicitly asks why a firm emerges at all and attributes its emergence partly to the costs of using the price mechanism. 67ad45e3

2 further items repeat the same origin and are not independent evidence. 67f0a969ff2de3fc

Qualifier: Coase's impact stems almost entirely from two articles published twenty-three years apart. 7ecb3e84

Qualifier: The Nobel citation credits transaction costs and property rights broadly, not solely the 1937 firm question. 713842fb

Qualifier: The Nobel citation names transaction costs and property rights together, not a single paper. 390ed269

Qualifier: The excerpt says Coase wrote a 1937 essay on the nature of the firm, but does not mention asking why firms exist or his Nobel Prize. 6428c8dd

Generated by stub-v0.1; every sentence cites graph ids.

Contribution history

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