# kaal:claim:3782205-023

**Claim.** Decentralized power regulation has been a conscious goal for centuries, but only now has technology improved enough to account for good and bad behavior on a near infinitesimal scale and to reward and punish fairly.

**Type.** empirical  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- depends on contemporary measurement and accounting technology

**Source quote.**

> Decentralized power regulation has been a conscious goal since the FGth century. To- day the technology has improved, so that it is possible to account for good and bad behavior on a near infinitesimal scale and reward and punish fairly.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Eight Institutions for the Evolution of Decentralization* (2021), Chapter 9. Eight institutions, page 4

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Eight Institutions for the Evolution of Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782205

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `5ba52c63e81019b6867fb29c4a50821ff574e510d79b31b8ce9f4c726a0ebc71` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Calcaterra%20and%20Kaal%20-%202021%20-%20Eight%20Institutions%20for%20the%20Evolution%20of%20Decentralization.pdf

**Topics.** governance-design

**Keywords.** governance, power-regulation, granular-accounting, technology

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of the claim. Its sha256 is the content hash used for attestation.