Common Law, Statute Law and Economic Efficiency
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
In a widely cited paper, Harold Demsetz (1967) asserted that legal rules change when economic efficiency requires them to change. He illustrated his claim with the replacement of common ownership by private ownership over fur-bearing animals around Quebec in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Private property involves costs of registering and enforcing titles of ownership that do not exist with common property. Only when the gains in output that private property offers exceed those costs does it become economically efficient for private ownership to replace common ownership. Initially, the fur-bearing animals were owned in common. No person could restrict anyone else’s right to hunt. The supply of animals was plentiful relative to demand, and conflicts among hunters over animals were rare. The development of fur trading, however, added a new source of demand for fur-bearing animals. As those animals became scarcer in response to the increased demand for fur, conflicts among hunters increased because animals captured by one hunter reduced the yield that other hunters earned from their efforts. The
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
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