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Atlas / Realms

Prices & wages

Subjects in this realm

Object count by maturity
Headline size counts L1-L5 research objects; L0 rough rows remain in the table only.

Count by Maturity

Realms drill-down chart Donut chart using L1 through L5 object counts; L0 rough-source counts are excluded from slice size. Prices & wages - Lead: 33 33 L1-L5
L0 Rough source
L1 Lead
L2 Candidate
L3 Evidence packet
L4 Draft article
L5 Published article
Realms drill-down table matching the chart links and maturity counts
Realm Chart count Total L0 L1 L2 L3 L4 L5
Prices & wages
Kill-instrument: book prices and scribal piece-rates -- the Diocletian Edict, Geniza prices, pawn/probate/taxatio series.
 33 33 0 33 0 0 0 0
Drill link Chart count L0 L1 L2 L3 L4 L5
Baumol in the scriptorium 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Books pawn like plate 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Cheap hands make many books 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Fiction depreciates first 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Her books live longer 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Nilometer to Geniza 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Notation prices like rubric 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Papyrus pays freight, parchment does not 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Paying for the pocket 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Survival is a luxury good 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Teaching Sanskrit Manuscripts to Tell Time 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The Bible obeys the price of paper 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The binding tax on short texts 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The book keeps its silver 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The curse guards the liquid book 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The cutting-stock codex 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The Edict's missing markets 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The flock sets the folio 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The grade ladder of charta 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The organ is a plague hire 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The palimpsest barometer 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The paper elasticity of prose 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The pledge chest is an anti-catalogue 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The potsherd substitution 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The price list never forgets 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The Saharan salt standard 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The sail bottleneck 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The scribe's plague dividend 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The second-hand ceiling 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The thousand-year price of a plain book 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The verso quotes the price 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The wheat rate of the written line 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Verses per hyperpyron 1 0 1 0 0 0 0

Deferred Metrics

Quotient epistemic mass
Size by aggregate epistemic_quotient to show where the strongest inferred knowledge is.
Published-only
Size by L5 published articles only: the solid-ground view.
Negative-space
Size or shade by lost-vs-attested structure: the map of the gaps.