Part I of A Marketplace of Ideas. How the prestige economy of science aligns incentives in some ways and fails badly in others.
Part II of A Marketplace of Ideas. What the scientific economy would look like if articles paid royalties roughly commensurate with their impact.
Part III of A Marketplace of Ideas. A new form of intellectual property that pays for an article's impact while leaving the science fully open.
Part IV of A Marketplace of Ideas. How to reward impact without recreating the perverse incentives, from review boards to impact-weighted citations and confidential vouchers.
Part V of A Marketplace of Ideas. How a single foundation could prove the concept, how government might follow, and what the scheme does not fix.
Compute is the scarce resource behind the claim graph. How to decide which claims get mapped, assessed, and re-assessed — a distributed, market-like approach with cost/value estimation and grantmaker agents.
Everyone agrees AI agents are a big deal; no one agrees what "agent" means. A taxonomy of the word's senses—taskbots, chatbots, drop-in remote workers, assistants, and freebooters—organized along two axes: who the agent serves, and how much agency it has.
Somehow no one has coined this word before. A proposal for a name—and a political philosophy: that the purpose of social norms and government is to align the incentives of free individuals toward pro-social ends.