Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 1979, John Richards and Larry Pratt published Prairie Capitalism: Power and Influence in the New West. The book’s discussion of the political and economic development of two western provinces, Alberta and Saskatchewan, attracted a good deal of attention and it was subsequently adopted by many academics as an undergraduate text.1 Twenty-five years later I was using the text in a class and I was struck by two things. The book still seemed relevant as a way to understand developments in western Canada, but at the same time few scholars had continued to ask the sorts of questions that Richards and Pratt had posed at the end of the 1970s. This led me to wonder what the authors might have to say today about their book and how they came to write it. Twenty-five years after it was published, Prairie Capitalism remains relevant for understanding political and economic developments in western Canada (Alberta and Saskatchewan). It is still adopted today by academics as an undergraduate textbook. The authors talk about the book, how they came to write it, and offer some thoughts on contemporary prairie capitalism.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it