# Authority

`kaal:entity:authority`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `authority`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2018 to 2021.

**2018**

- [3227933-002](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3227933-002) [mechanism/argued] -- Earlier technological revolutions produced greater organizational centralization, because societies responded to the uncertain meaning, effects, and risks of new technology by pooling authority; the current digital transformation reverses this pattern.
  > Previous technological revolutions led to a concentration of such organizations, as society adapted to the uncertain meaning, effects, and risks of technological change by pooling (i.e., centralizing) authority.
  Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Why 'Blockchain' Will Disrupt Corporate Organizations (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3227933

**2021**

- [3782220-034](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782220-034) [normative/argued] -- Scientists do not deserve and can never earn the authority to rule on whether we should ask what meaning or values lie behind the rules guiding the universe; on that subject they have less authority than those who study spirituality, theology, morality, or poetry.
  > Scientists do not deserve to rule on the question of whether we should ask what the meaning is behind the rules guiding the universe, or the values they might reflect. They have less author- ity on this subject than someone who studies spirituality or theology or morality or poetry.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of Transcendental Unifying Values for Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782220

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