Preprints
Two papers, posted here before arXiv and before any preprint server. Neither is peer reviewed and neither has been submitted anywhere. I’m putting them up myself because I’d rather meet the handful of people who find this interesting than count downloads from a repository.
A levy cannot tax what its base cannot see
The base caps the region, the rate moves you within it: redistribution as a parameter space
Wealth that grows by multiplication concentrates on its own, without anyone steering it, so every distribution that is not fully concentrated is being pushed back on by something. This paper asks what those pushes actually have in common, and finds that the decisive thing is not how hard you push but how much of the gain you can see in the first place. A levy on income nobody has realised is, arithmetically, no levy at all.
Two firms file the same numbers
Timeliness and durability are not separately identified from a reported series
A balance sheet reports a thing that is wearing out whether or not anyone writes it down. This paper shows that a prompt reporter of a durable asset and a slow reporter of a perishable one produce numerically identical filings, to fourteen decimal places, while the physical stocks behind them differ by a factor of 250,000. That collapses a large family of accounting comparisons, and the paper is equally clear about the prediction of its own that failed.
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