Pith Number

pith:MWR24ZXA

pith:2018:MWR24ZXAEJIWE3KYISPVO3NXJW

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How to Increase Global Wealth Inequality for Fun and Profit

Bruce Knuteson

arxiv:1811.04994 v1 · 2018-11-12 · econ.GN · q-fin.EC · q-fin.TR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MWR24ZXAEJIWE3KYISPVO3NXJW}

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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	2026-05-18T00:01:01.494846Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

65a3ae66e02251626d58449f576db74db6280acf9cde18631b7c2c8257110aec

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.04994 · arxiv_version: 1811.04994v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.04994 · pith_short_12: MWR24ZXAEJIW · pith_short_16: MWR24ZXAEJIWE3KY · pith_short_8: MWR24ZXA

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/MWR24ZXAEJIWE3KYISPVO3NXJW \
  | 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: 65a3ae66e02251626d58449f576db74db6280acf9cde18631b7c2c8257110aec

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a3a0224ec7ea79ea8f352a06ed5c41b20ec761b61061998586a40f32bd563fea",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-fin.EC",
      "q-fin.TR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.GN",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-12T20:34:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "502cdb4755305fcba29fd5bce612e40798a1f6ac13d2ae6793714b96d122bd8b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.04994",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}