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Hanseatic Shapley values

Status: Prior

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This is a proposed connection between two domains, generated by a language model. It is not an article and not evidence: it sits below the evidence/publication boundary. A quantitative prediction and a named kill-dataset are attached (when registered) so the claim stays falsifiable rather than merely evocative.

Claim (verbatim)

Hanseatic Shapley values. Kontor privileges track member cities' route-control Shapley values and re-rank after route shocks. Falsify: privilege lists vs network model.

Kill-dataset (verbatim)

privilege lists vs network model.

Provenance

Run: Imported conversation (verbatim harvest) · model: claude-fable-5

Origin: operator conversation with Claude Fable 5 at max effort, conducted 2026-07-03, relayed verbatim by the operator into the shepherd session on 2026-07-04. No ModelRun exists for the original generation (it happened outside the pipeline); this transcript file is the canonical capture. Transcript path: docs/generated/conjecture_harvest_fablemax_20260703.md. Model (operator-attested, not pipeline-recorded): claude-fable-5. Novelty disclaimer (verbatim, load-bearing -- rule 4): "Same caveat as before, doubled: at 100 items across all of archaeology and history, some of these will have cousins in the literature I can't check. What I can guarantee is the format — each links two things not normally linked, and each names the dataset or measurement that would kill it."

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Adjacent (closely related prior work exists)

Quantitative network analyses of the Hansa exist (Diet-participation embeddedness; 190-year captain/city trade-persistence econometrics) and Kontor privileges are described qualitatively; computing route-control Shapley values and testing privilege tracking or post-shock re-ranking was not located.

Rauch, Marczinek & Maurer, 'Networks in trade - Evidence from the legacy of the Hanseatic league', JIE — Quantitative Hansa network economics

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