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Crisis Pricing

2025· article· en· W7060695439 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueEmory law journal · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicSuperconducting Materials and Applications
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsValue (mathematics)Government (linguistics)Function (biology)Quarter (Canadian coin)Free marketControl (management)Financial crisisSocial control
DOInot available

Abstract

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Extraordinary times beget extraordinary measures. Multiple national emergencies during the past quarter century have generated a pitched debate as to whether, and to what extent, a crisis justifies deviations from fundamental legal rules. That debate has often focused on constitutional law and has produced sharply divergent views. Some theorists advocate a “business-as-usual” approach, eschewing emergency deviations, but societies rarely hold that course. More pragmatic scholars would permit some emergency measures but also defend fundamental social structures that have great value even during emergencies. Emergencies, however, pose challenges not only to constitutional rules but to law generally, including the basic structures of law governing commerce. In ordinary times, most developed countries rely on markets rather than government edicts to control the exchange of goods and services. One great benefit of markets is that they distill vast quantities of information into easily understood signals—prices—that help individuals and firms decide what to buy and sell. Yet deeply held social norms against profiting from others’ hardships during emergencies frequently lead governments to impose price controls, antigouging laws, and other crisis pricing rules that supplant markets, destroy the informational value of market prices, and produce long queues, hoarding, and illicit side markets that can deepen rather than ameliorate the emergency. More pragmatic approaches are needed for crisis pricing, and one promising approach is “zero-profit pricing”—an approach that can accommodate social norms against profiting off a crisis and yet still preserve the extraordinarily important informational function of market pricing. Zero-profit pricing has antecedents in common law crisis doctrines such as the necessity defense and general average contribution; may be more equitable and more efficient than existing approaches to emergencies (including a business-as-usual approach); and, most importantly, can minimize rather than exacerbate the misery caused by a crisis.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.364
Threshold uncertainty score0.222

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.236
Teacher spread0.226 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it