# kaal:claim:3808852-006

**Claim.** Increased networkability drives decentralization of science because it lowers the cost of ascertaining the accuracy of scientific results while raising the price a scientist pays for being inaccurate or wrong.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- requires interested parties to be networked through technology

**Source quote.**

> Economics of science supports this decentralized paradigm shift because through the increased networkability the cost of ascertaining the accuracy of scientific results is decreasing while the price for being inaccurate or wrong as a scientist is increasing.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralization and Feedback Effects* (2021), II. Decentralization of Science, page 5

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization and Feedback Effects (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808852

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**Topics.** economics, decentralization

**Keywords.** economics-of-science, networkability, verification-cost, science-decentralization

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