# Scale

`kaal:entity:scale`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `scale`. 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

3 claims across 2 works, 2017 to 2021.

**2017**

- [3002908-036](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3002908-036) [condition/argued] -- Whether private investment funds succeed in disintermediating banks through blockchain implementation depends on their ability to find scale opportunities.
  > Private investment funds' bank disintermediation through the implementation of blockchain technology will depend on their ability to find scale opportunities.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Marco Dell'Erba, Blockchain Innovation in Private Investment Funds - A Comparative Analysis of the United States and (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3002908

**2021**

- [3782192-028](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782192-028) [mechanism/argued] -- Advances in information technology explain each historical leap in organizational efficiency and reach, from kinship tribes through nation states to the emerging global society.
  > Advances in information technology explain each historical leap in organizational ef- ficiency and reach.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Introduction to Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782192
- [3782192-035](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782192-035) [condition/argued] -- Before blockchain technology and cryptographic security, a dictatorship was necessary for governing a large network because more sophisticated governance architectures such as democracies could not govern efficiently at that scale.
  > A dictatorship was necessary for governance of the network, because more sophisticated governance architectures, such as democracies, lacked the ability to govern efficiently.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Introduction to Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782192

## Verify

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