Pith Number

pith:7YGJSXNM

pith:2015:7YGJSXNMLRHZHQRTX3CRIUIZOO

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The Principle of the Malevolent Hiding Hand; or, the Planning Fallacy Writ Large

Bent Flyvbjerg, Cass R. Sunstein

arxiv:1509.01526 v1 · 2015-09-04 · q-fin.EC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7YGJSXNMLRHZHQRTX3CRIUIZOO}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:47:51.197607Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fe0c995dac5c4f93c233bec514511973aa1fef54c6a6d32b7b580235191f5604

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.01526 · arxiv_version: 1509.01526v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.01526 · pith_short_12: 7YGJSXNMLRHZ · pith_short_16: 7YGJSXNMLRHZHQRT · pith_short_8: 7YGJSXNM

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7YGJSXNMLRHZHQRTX3CRIUIZOO \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: fe0c995dac5c4f93c233bec514511973aa1fef54c6a6d32b7b580235191f5604

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cae9812c975b1e4fd7860782284c69c78421f399e4493ab74b0ab7e71ad24ee9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.EC",
    "submitted_at": "2015-09-04T16:51:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9319e42487779bcb64bd0a148161109e5244b87164b19e1c6fcfd78d9c10b28e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.01526",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}