Research Bibliography

The Audited State Research Programme investigates Navigational Coherence — how understanding remains sufficiently coherent to support orientation, judgment, revision, learning, and action as systems, evidence, interpretations, and circumstances change.

This bibliography is the human-facing literature map for the Audited State Research Programme. It includes literature formally cited in the circulated papers, literature that informed the programme without becoming a formal citation, sources used directly in The Wealth of Understanding, and contemporary intellectual adjacencies. The manuscript-verified record of what the 24 circulated papers actually cite is maintained separately in the Verified Citation Index. The programme's own circulated papers are listed in Part 5.

Two complementary records are maintained: this page answers what bodies of literature matter to the programme?; the Verified Citation Index answers what did the circulated papers actually cite?

The current citation index covers 24 circulated papers. Reference-occurrence and normalized-source-cluster counts are being recomputed to include the two most recently circulated papers and are not restated here in the meantime — see the Verified Citation Index for the current figures.

Part 1 — Research Literature Map

The sources below map the principal literatures surrounding the programme. Many are verified citations in the circulated papers; others belong to Audited State's earlier literature environment and remain relevant even where they did not become formal citations. For exact paper-by-paper provenance, use the Verified Citation Index.

Philosophy of Science

• Popper, Karl. The Logic of Scientific Discovery. 1959.
• Kuhn, Thomas. "The Function of Measurement in Modern Physical Science." 1961; The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 1962/1970.
• Lakatos, Imre. The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes. 1978.
• Feyerabend, Paul. Against Method. 1975.
• Laudan, Larry. Progress and Its Problems. 1977.
• Mayo, Deborah. Statistical Inference as Severe Testing. 2018.
• Fleck, Ludwik. Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact. 1935/1979.

Philosophy of Measurement

• Chang, Hasok. Inventing Temperature. 2004.
• Tal, Eran. "Measurement in Science." 2015.
• Mandelbrot, Benoit B. "How Long Is the Coast of Britain? Statistical Self-Similarity and Fractional Dimension." Science 156(3775), 636–638, 1967. DOI: 10.1126/science.156.3775.636.
• Goodhart, Charles. "Problems of Monetary Management." 1975.
• Campbell, Donald. "Assessing the Impact of Planned Social Change." 1976.
• Stiglitz, Joseph; Sen, Amartya; Fitoussi, Jean-Paul. Commission Report. 2009; Beyond GDP. 2018.

Intangible Capital & the Economics of Invisibility

• Corrado, Carol; Hulten, Charles; Sichel, Daniel. 2005, 2009.
• Haskel, Jonathan; Westlake, Stian. Capitalism Without Capital. 2017.
• Solow, Robert. 1987; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Rock, Daniel; Syverson, Chad. 2017.
• Greenstein, Shane; Nagle, Frank. "Digital Dark Matter." 2014.

Complexity, Systems & Bounded Rationality

• Lorenz, Edward. "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow." 1963.
• Simon, Herbert. "Rational Choice and the Structure of the Environment." 1956.
• Weick, Karl. Sensemaking in Organizations. 1995.
• Gigerenzer, Gerd; Todd, Peter. Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart. 1999.
• Meadows, Donella. Thinking in Systems. 2008.
• Snowden, David; Boone, Mary. "A Leader's Framework for Decision Making." 2007.
• Hayek, Friedrich. "The Use of Knowledge in Society." 1945.
• Scheffer, Marten. Critical Transitions in Nature and Society. 2009.
• North, Douglass C. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. 1990.

Cybernetics

• Wiener, Norbert. Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. 1948; The Human Use of Human Beings. 1950.
• Conant, Roger; Ashby, W. Ross. "Every Good Regulator of a System Must Be a Model of That System." 1970.
• Ashby, W. Ross. An Introduction to Cybernetics. 1956.
• Heylighen, Francis; Joslyn, Cliff. "Cybernetics and Second-Order Cybernetics." 2003.

Organisational Memory & Distributed Cognition

• Polanyi, Michael. The Tacit Dimension. 1966.
• Hutchins, Edwin. Cognition in the Wild. 1995.
• Walsh, James; Ungson, Gerardo. "Organizational Memory." 1991.
• Davenport, Thomas; Prusak, Laurence. Working Knowledge. 1998.
• Lehman, Manny. "Programs, Life Cycles, and Laws of Software Evolution." 1980.
• Nonaka, Ikujiro; Takeuchi, Hirotaka. The Knowledge-Creating Company. 1995.
• Yang, Ye; Verma, Dinesh; Anton, Philip S. "Technical Debt in the Engineering of Complex Systems." Systems Engineering 26(5), 590–603, 2023. DOI: 10.1002/sys.21677.
• Vaughan, Diane. The Challenger Launch Decision. 1996.
• Columbia Accident Investigation Board. Report, Volume I. 2003.
• Rogers, William P. et al. Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986.
• Rhodes, Richard. The Making of the Atomic Bomb. 1986.

Organizational Learning: Double-Loop Revision & the Paradox of Success

• Argyris, Chris. "Double Loop Learning in Organizations." Harvard Business Review 55(5), 115–124, 1977.
• Argyris, Chris; Schön, Donald A. Theory in Practice: Increasing Professional Effectiveness. 1974; Organizational Learning: A Theory of Action Perspective. 1978.
• March, James G. "Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning." Organization Science 2(1), 71–87, 1991.
• Levinthal, Daniel A.; March, James G. "The Myopia of Learning." Strategic Management Journal 14(S2), 95–112, 1993.
• O'Reilly, Charles A.; Tushman, Michael L. "The Ambidextrous Organization." Harvard Business Review 82(4), 74–81, 2004.
• Miller, Danny. The Icarus Paradox: How Exceptional Companies Bring About Their Own Downfall. 1990; "What Happens After Success: The Perils of Excellence." Journal of Management Studies 31(3), 325–358, 1994.
• Audia, Pino G.; Locke, Edwin A.; Smith, Ken G. "The Paradox of Success: An Archival and a Laboratory Study of Strategic Persistence Following Radical Environmental Change." Academy of Management Journal 43(5), 837–853, 2000.
• Madsen, Peter M.; Desai, Vinit. "Failing to Learn? The Effects of Failure and Success on Organizational Learning in the Global Orbital Launch Vehicle Industry." Academy of Management Journal 53(3), 451–476, 2010.

AI Safety: Superintelligence, Scalable Oversight & Corrigibility

• Bostrom, Nick. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. 2014.
• Christiano, Paul; Shlegeris, Buck; Amodei, Dario. "Supervising Strong Learners by Amplifying Weak Experts." arXiv:1810.08575, 2018.
• Engels, Joshua et al. "Scaling Laws for Scalable Oversight." arXiv:2504.18530, 2025.
• Soares, Nate; Fallenstein, Benja; Yudkowsky, Eliezer; Armstrong, Stuart. "Corrigibility." AAAI Workshops: Workshops at the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 2015.
• Hadfield-Menell, Dylan; Dragan, Anca; Abbeel, Pieter; Russell, Stuart. "The Off-Switch Game." Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-17). 220–227, 2017.

Legibility: Administrative & Behavioral

• Scott, James C. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. 1998.
• Dragan, Anca D.; Lee, Kenton C. T.; Srinivasa, Siddhartha S. "Legibility and Predictability of Robot Motion." Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '13). 301–308, 2013.

Model Provenance & Lineage Fingerprinting

• Wang, S.; Ma, Z.; Li, X.; Li, Z. "Ghost in the Transformer: Detecting Model Reuse with Invariant Spectral Signatures." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 40(40), 33648–33656, 2026. DOI: 10.1609/aaai.v40i40.40654. (Earlier arXiv version, titled "Ghost in the Transformer: Tracing LLM Lineage with SVD-Fingerprint": arXiv:2511.06390, 2025.)
• Shang, Z.; Li, J.; Chen, P.; Liu, Y.; Gu, X.; Wang, W. "Attesting Model Lineage by Consistent Knowledge Evolution with Fine-Tuning Trajectory." Proceedings of the 35th USENIX Security Symposium, 4483–4502, 2026. (Earlier arXiv version: arXiv:2601.11683.)
• Gloaguen, T.; Staab, R.; Jovanović, N.; Vechev, M. "LLM Fingerprinting via Semantically Conditioned Watermarks." International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026). arXiv:2505.16723.

Open-Weight Models & Release Governance

• Chae, S.; Kim, K.; Kim, H.; Ju, J.; Park, S. "Position: Current Model Cards Are Insufficient for Downstream Governance of Open-Weight Foundation Models." Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning, 2026. arXiv:2608.18086. (Figures cited in the programme's paper reflect a revised version of this manuscript; an earlier May 2026 conference summary reported different values for the same audit.)
• Xu, W.; Ye, H.; Ye, H.; Gao, K.; Filkov, V.; Zhou, M. "A Governance Horizon for Ethical-Use Constraints in Open-Weight AI Models." arXiv:2605.24383, 2026.
• Hugging Face. "Content Policy." 2025. https://huggingface.co/content-policy

Algorithmic Accountability & Regulatory Intermediaries

• Yeung, Karen. "Algorithmic Regulation: A Critical Interrogation." Regulation & Governance 12(4), 505–523, 2018. DOI: 10.1111/rego.12158.
• Ulbricht, Lena; Yeung, Karen. "Algorithmic Regulation: A Maturing Concept for Investigating Regulation of and Through Algorithms." Regulation & Governance, 2021. DOI: 10.1111/rego.12437.
• Krafft, Tobias D.; Zweig, Katharina A.; König, Pascal D. "How to Regulate Algorithmic Decision-Making: A Framework of Regulatory Requirements for Different Applications." Regulation & Governance 16(1), 119–136, 2020. DOI: 10.1111/rego.12369.
• Abbott, Kenneth W.; Levi-Faur, David; Snidal, Duncan. "Theorizing Regulatory Intermediaries: The RIT Model." The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 670(1), 14–35, 2017. DOI: 10.1177/0002716216688272.
• Brès, Laure; Ména, Sébastien; Salles-Djelic, Marie-Laure. "Exploring the Formal and Informal Roles of Regulatory Intermediaries in Transnational Multi-Stakeholder Regulation." Regulation & Governance 13(2), 127–140, 2019. DOI: 10.1111/rego.12249.
• Kourula, Arno; Paukku, Maria; Peterson, Aaron; Koria, Mari. "Intermediary Roles in Regulatory Programs: Toward a Role-Based Framework." Regulation & Governance 13(2), 141–156, 2019. DOI: 10.1111/rego.12226.
• Heim, Lennart; Fist, Tim; Egan, Janet; Huang, Sihao; Zekany, Stephen; Trager, Robert; Osborne, Michael A.; Zilberman, Noa. "Governing Through the Cloud: The Intermediary Role of Compute Providers in AI Regulation." arXiv:2403.08501, 2024.
• Ananny, Mike; Crawford, Kate. "Seeing Without Knowing: Limitations of the Transparency Ideal and Its Application to Algorithmic Accountability." New Media & Society 20(3), 973–989, 2018. DOI: 10.1177/1461444816676645.
• Wieringa, Maranke. "What to Account for When Accounting for Algorithms: A Systematic Literature Review on Algorithmic Accountability." Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT* '20), 1–18, 2020. DOI: 10.1145/3351095.3372833.
• Cobbe, Jennifer; Lee, Michelle Seng Ah; Singh, Jatinder. "Reviewable Automated Decision-Making: A Framework for Accountable Algorithmic Systems." Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT '21), 598–609, 2021. DOI: 10.1145/3442188.3445921.
• Selbst, Andrew D.; boyd, danah; Friedler, Sorelle A.; Venkatasubramanian, Suresh; Vertesi, Janet. "Fairness and Abstraction in Sociotechnical Systems." Proceedings of the Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT* '19), 59–68, 2019. DOI: 10.1145/3287560.3287598.

Conservation Biology & Precautionary Release Protocols

• IUCN/SSC. Guidelines for Reintroductions and Other Conservation Translocations. Version 1.0. IUCN Species Survival Commission, 2013.

Risk Communication & Early-Warning Systems

• National Hurricane Center. Glossary of NHC Terms: Cone of Uncertainty; Hurricane Watch; Hurricane Warning. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2025.
• Witt, Jessica K.; Clegg, Benjamin A. "Dynamic Ensemble Visualizations to Support Understanding for Uncertain Trajectories." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. Advance online publication, 2021.

Information Theory, Decision Accountability & Contemporary AI Research

• Shannon, Claude. "A Mathematical Theory of Communication." 1948.
• Singh, Jatinder; Cobbe, Jennifer; Norval, Chris. "Decision Provenance: Harnessing Data Flow for Accountable Systems." IEEE Access 7, 6562–6574, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2887201.
• Shumailov, Ilia; Shumaylov, Zakhar; Zhao, Yiren; Papernot, Nicolas; Anderson, Ross; Gal, Yarin. "AI Models Collapse When Trained on Recursively Generated Data." Nature 631, 755–759, 2024. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07566-y.
• Roe, Adam; Richardson, Samuel; Schneider, Joseph; Cummings, Anthony; Forsberg, Nicholas; Klein, Jonathan. "Semantic Drift Mitigation in Large Language Model Knowledge Retention Using the Residual Knowledge Stability Concept." TechRxiv preprint, 6 November 2024. DOI: 10.36227/techrxiv.173091142.28945162/v1.
• Meng, Shuchen; Chen, Xupeng. "Artificial Intelligence and Systemic Risk: A Unified Model of Performative Prediction, Algorithmic Herding, and Cognitive Dependency in Financial Markets." arXiv:2604.03272, 2026.
• OECD.AI. "Overview and Methodology of the AI Incidents and Hazards Monitor." Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2023.
• Responsible AI Collaborative. AI Incident Database [dataset snapshot, 2026-09-28]. 2026. https://incidentdatabase.ai/research/snapshots/
• Massalin, Henry. "Superoptimizer: A Look at the Smallest Program." ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News 15(5), 122–126, 1987. (Unrelated computer-science usage of "superoptimization"; noted here only to close off a terminology collision, not as a substantive influence.)

Field Theory & Phenomenology

• Faraday, Michael. Experimental Researches in Electricity. 1839–1855.
• Maxwell, James Clerk. "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field." 1865.
• Bohr, Niels. Como Lecture. 1927/1928; "Causality and Complementarity." 1937.
• Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Phénoménologie de la perception. 1945.
• Nersessian, Nancy. Faraday to Einstein. 1984.
• Peirce, Charles Sanders. "How to Make Our Ideas Clear." 1878; Collected Papers. 1931–1958.
• Heraclitus. Fragments, via Kahn. 1979.
• Husserl, Edmund. On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time. 1928/1966.
• Loewenstein, George. "The Psychology of Curiosity." 1994.
• Todorov, Tzvetan. "The Typology of Detective Fiction." 1966/1977.
• Huizinga, Johan. Homo Ludens. 1938/1955.
• Thagard, Paul. "Explanatory Coherence." 1989.
• Douglas, Karen; Sutton, Robbie; Cichocka, Aleksandra. "The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories." 2017.
• Whitson, Jennifer; Galinsky, Adam. "Lacking Control Increases Illusory Pattern Perception." 2008.
• Barthes, Roland. S/Z. 1970/1974.

Cognitive Load & Attention

• Miller, George. "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two." 1956.
• Cowan, Nelson. "The Magical Number 4 in Short-Term Memory: A Reconsideration of Mental Storage Capacity." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24(1), 87–114, 2001. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X01003922.
• Sweller, John. "Cognitive Load During Problem Solving: Effects on Learning." Cognitive Science 12(2), 257–285, 1988. DOI: 10.1207/s15516709cog1202_4.
• Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking, Fast and Slow. 2011.
• Eppler, Martin; Mengis, Jeanne. "The Concept of Information Overload." 2004.
• Satta, Ludovica. "Epistemic Exhaustion and the Retention of Power." 2024.
• Ciocan, Cristian. "The Phenomenology of Fatigue." 2025.

Memory, Rumor & Context Collapse

• Bartlett, Frederic. Remembering. 1932.
• Allport, Gordon; Postman, Leo. The Psychology of Rumor. 1947.
• Marwick, Alice; Boyd, danah. "I Tweet Honestly, I Tweet Passionately." 2011.
• Moore, Ryan. "The Momo Challenge and the Intersection of Contemporary Legend and Moral Panic." 2023.
• Radford, Benjamin. "The 'Momo Challenge' and the 'Blue Whale Game'." 2019.
• Ost, James; Udell, Julie; Dear, Katie; Zinken, Jörg; Blank, Hartmut; Costall, Alan. "The Serial Reproduction of an Urban Myth." 2022.

Calibration & Forecasting

• Dawid, A. Philip. "The Well-Calibrated Bayesian." 1982; "Calibration-Based Empirical Probability." 1985.
• Oakes, David. "Self-Calibrating Priors Do Not Exist." 1985.
• Gneiting, Tilmann; Raftery, Adrian. "Strictly Proper Scoring Rules, Prediction, and Estimation." 2007.
• Tetlock, Philip; Gardner, Dan. Superforecasting. 2015.
• Parker, Wendy. "Confirmation and Adequacy-for-Purpose in Climate Modelling." 2009.

Control Theory & Information Standards

• Kalman, Rudolf. "On the General Theory of Control Systems." 1960.
• CCSDS/ISO. OAIS Reference Model. 2012.
• ISO/IEC 25010. SQuaRE. 2011.
• Bernstein, Philip; Hadzilacos, Vassos; Goodman, Nathan. Concurrency Control and Recovery in Database Systems. 1987.
• Moreau, Luc et al. PROV-DM. W3C, 2013.

Generalization, Robustness & External Validity

• Campbell, Donald T.; Stanley, Julian C. Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research. 1963.
• Cartwright, Nancy. The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science. 1999.
• Steel, Daniel. Across the Boundaries: Extrapolation in Biology and Social Science. 2007.
• Wimsatt, William C. "Robustness, Reliability, and Overdetermination." 1981.
• Yarkoni, Tal. "The Generalizability Crisis." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 45, e1, 2022.
• George, Alexander L.; Bennett, Andrew. Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences. MIT Press, 2005.
• Kahneman, Daniel; Klein, Gary. "Conditions for Intuitive Expertise: A Failure to Disagree." American Psychologist 64(6), 515–526, 2009.

Causal Explanation, Pluralism & Model Scope

• Machamer, Peter; Darden, Lindley; Craver, Carl F. "Thinking About Mechanisms." Philosophy of Science 67(1), 1–25, 2000.
• Mitchell, Sandra D. Biological Complexity and Integrative Pluralism. 2003.
• Ross, Lauren N. "Causal Selection and the Pathway Concept." Philosophy of Science 85(4), 551–572, 2018.
• Grüne-Yanoff, Till; Marchionni, Caterina. "Modeling Model Selection in Model Pluralism." Journal of Economic Methodology 25(3), 265–275, 2018.
• Parker, Wendy S. "Model Evaluation: An Adequacy-for-Purpose View." Philosophy of Science 87(3), 457–477, 2020.
• Knuuttila, Tarja; Morgan, Mary S. "Deidealization: No Easy Reversals." Philosophy of Science 86(4), 641–661, 2019.

Organizational Learning, Knowledge Continuity & Succession

• Sfard, Anna. "On Two Metaphors for Learning and the Dangers of Choosing Just One." Educational Researcher 27(2), 4–13, 1998. DOI: 10.3102/0013189X027002004.
• Argote, Linda; Beckman, Sara L.; Epple, Dennis. "The Persistence and Transfer of Learning in Industrial Settings." Management Science 36(2), 140–154, 1990.
• Darr, Eric D.; Argote, Linda; Epple, Dennis. "The Acquisition, Transfer, and Depreciation of Knowledge in Service Organizations." Management Science 41(11), 1750–1762, 1995.
• Crossan, Mary M.; Lane, Henry W.; White, Roderick E. "An Organizational Learning Framework: From Intuition to Institution." Academy of Management Review 24(3), 522–537, 1999.
• Bontis, Nick; Crossan, Mary M.; Hulland, John. "Managing an Organizational Learning System by Aligning Stocks and Flows." Journal of Management Studies 39(4), 437–469, 2002.
• Lewis, Kyle. "Measuring Transactive Memory Systems in the Field." Journal of Applied Psychology 88(4), 587–604, 2003; "Knowledge and Performance in Knowledge-Worker Teams." Management Science 50(11), 1519–1533, 2004.
• Kalkan, Volkan D. "Knowledge Continuity Management Process in Organizations." Journal of Business & Economics Research 4(3), 2006.
• Peet, Melissa. "Leadership Transitions, Tacit Knowledge Sharing and Organizational Generativity." Journal of Knowledge Management 16(1), 45–60, 2012.

Thresholds, Path Dependence & Institutional Change

• Arthur, W. Brian. "Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns, and Lock-In by Historical Events." Economic Journal 99(394), 116–131, 1989.
• David, Paul A. "Clio and the Economics of QWERTY." American Economic Review 75(2), 332–337, 1985.
• Scheffer, Marten et al. "Early-Warning Signals for Critical Transitions." Nature 461, 53–59, 2009; "Anticipating Critical Transitions." Science 338, 344–348, 2012.
• Guttal, Vishwesha; Raghavendra, S.; Goel, N.; Hoarau, Q. "Lack of Critical Slowing Down Suggests That Financial Meltdowns Are Not Critical Transitions, Yet Rising Variability Could Signal Systemic Risk." PLOS ONE 11(1), e0144198, 2016.
• Elsner, Wolfram. "Collapse: Institutional Decline and Breakdown, Its Endogeneity and Its Asymmetry vis-à-vis Emergence." Journal of Economic Issues 55(1), 79–102, 2021.

Epistemic Closure, Voice & Uncertainty

• Douglas, Heather. "Inductive Risk and Values in Science." Philosophy of Science 67(4), 559–579, 2000.
• Morrison, Elizabeth W.; Milliken, Frances J. "Organizational Silence: A Barrier to Change and Development in a Pluralistic World." Academy of Management Review 25(4), 706–725, 2000.
• Dotson, Kristie. "Tracking Epistemic Violence, Tracking Practices of Silencing." Hypatia 26(2), 236–257, 2011.
• Hess, David J. et al. "Undone Science: Charting Social Movement and Civil Society Challenges to Research Agenda Setting." Science, Technology, & Human Values 35(4), 444–473, 2010.
• Miller, Boaz. "When Is Scientific Dissent Epistemically Inappropriate?" Philosophy of Science 88(5), 918–928, 2021.
• Pandolfo, Anna M.; Reader, Tom W.; Gillespie, Alex. "Safety Listening in Organizations: An Integrated Conceptual Review." Organizational Psychology Review 15(1), 93–124, 2025.
• French, Robert; Simpson, Peter. Negative Capability: A Capacity for Not Knowing. 2015.

Generativity, Cultural Transmission & Human Continuity

• Hamilton, W. D. "The Genetical Evolution of Social Behaviour I & II." Journal of Theoretical Biology 7(1), 1–52, 1964.
• McAdams, Dan P.; de St. Aubin, Ed. "A Theory of Generativity and Its Assessment Through Self-Report, Behavioral Acts, and Narrative Themes in Autobiography." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 62(6), 1003–1015, 1992.
• Kotre, John N. Outliving the Self: Generativity and the Interpretation of Lives. 1984.
• Henrich, Joseph. "Demography and Cultural Evolution: How Adaptive Cultural Processes Can Produce Maladaptive Losses — The Tasmanian Case." American Antiquity 69(2), 197–214, 2004; The Secret of Our Success. 2015.
• Faßbender, K.; Wiebe, A.; Bates, T. C. "Physical and Cultural Inheritance Enhance Agency, but What Are the Origins of This Concern to Establish a Legacy?" Behavior Genetics 49(2), 244–257, 2019.
• Morgan, T. J. H. et al. "Experimental Evidence for the Co-evolution of Hominin Tool-Making Teaching and Language." Nature Communications 6, 6029, 2015.

Knowledge Economy, R&D & Organization Capital

• Romer, Paul M. "Endogenous Technological Change." Journal of Political Economy 98(5, Part 2), S71–S102, 1990.
• Prescott, Edward C.; Visscher, Michael. "Organization Capital." Journal of Political Economy 88(3), 446–461, 1980.
• Atkeson, Andrew; Kehoe, Patrick J. "Modeling and Measuring Organization Capital." Journal of Political Economy 113(5), 1026–1053, 2005.
• Hall, Bronwyn H. "Measuring the Returns to R&D: The Depreciation Problem." NBER Working Paper 13473, 2007.
• Kogut, Bruce; Zander, Udo. "Knowledge of the Firm, Combinative Capabilities, and the Replication of Technology." Organization Science 3(3), 383–397, 1992.
• MacKenzie, Donald; Spinardi, Graham. "Tacit Knowledge, Weapons Design, and the Uninvention of Nuclear Weapons." American Journal of Sociology 101(1), 44–99, 1995.

Regulatory Frameworks

• Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act). Official Journal of the European Union, L, 2024/1689, 12.7.2024.
• Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act), Pub. L. No. 111-203, 124 Stat. 1376, 2010.
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Marketing Submission Recommendations for a Predetermined Change Control Plan for Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Device Software Functions. Final guidance, 2024.
• Federal Reserve Board. "Resolution Plan Assessment: Wells Fargo & Company." Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 2017.
• Federal Reserve Board. "Review of the Federal Reserve's Supervision and Regulation of Silicon Valley Bank." Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, April 28, 2023.
• Bowman, M. W. "Initial Findings from the Independent Review of Silicon Valley Bank" [Speech]. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, September 18, 2026.

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Part 2 — Cited in The Wealth of Understanding

These sources directly support claims, examples, or reflections in the book and are being maintained separately from the paper-citation ledger. Some also appear in the research literature map above; exact paper-level provenance remains in the Verified Citation Index.

Chapter 2 — Data Is Not Truth

• Statistics Denmark. Denmark in Figures / Area, Population and Coastline. Coastline reported as 7,313.93 km (commonly rounded to 7,314 km), based on a planimetric survey completed in 1959. — The Wealth of Understanding, Chapter 2
• Danish Coastal Authority (Kystdirektoratet). Coastal development, erosion, sediment transport, and storm-surge monitoring materials. — The Wealth of Understanding, Chapter 2
• Mark, Gloria; Gudith, Daniela; Klocke, Ulrich. "The Cost of Interrupted Work: More Speed and Stress." Proceedings of CHI 2008, 107–110. DOI: 10.1145/1357054.1357072. — The Wealth of Understanding, Chapter 2 — Cognitive Perspective
• Wager, Tor D.; Atlas, Lauren Y. "The Neuroscience of Placebo Effects: Connecting Context, Learning and Health." Nature Reviews Neuroscience 16(7), 403–418, 2015. DOI: 10.1038/nrn3976. — The Wealth of Understanding, Chapter 2 — Author Reflection / Healthcare Perspective
• Frisaldi, Elisa; Shaibani, Aziz; Benedetti, Fabrizio; Pagnini, Francesco. "Placebo and Nocebo Effects and Mechanisms Associated with Pharmacological Interventions: An Umbrella Review." BMJ Open 13, e077243, 2023. DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-077243. — The Wealth of Understanding, Chapter 2 — Author Reflection / Healthcare Perspective

Part 3 — Background Literature Not Verified as Formal Paper Citations

These works genuinely informed the framework's development and thinking but are not presently verified as formal citations in the circulated paper corpus. They are retained as background literature rather than retrospectively promoted into citations.

• Beer, Stafford. Cybernetics and Management. 1959; Brain of the Firm. 1972; The Heart of Enterprise. 1979.
• Von Foerster, Heinz. Understanding Understanding: Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition. 2003.
• Bateson, Gregory. Steps to an Ecology of Mind. 1972.
• Luhmann, Niklas. Social Systems. 1995.
• Floridi, Luciano. The Philosophy of Information. 2011.
• Bruner, Jerome. The Process of Education. 1960.
• Granum, Mathias. Fra monsterelever til mønsterelever. 2026. (Danish; English edition not yet available)

Part 4 — Intellectual Adjacencies

Daniel Schmachtenberger / The Consilience Project

Schmachtenberger's work on information ecology, collective sensemaking, and civilisational metacrisis independently diagnoses a problem closely adjacent to this programme's own motivating question — how understanding remains coherent as complexity outpaces any single mind's capacity to track it. A detailed provisional comparison finds strong convergence at the level of problem-description (fragmentation, information abundance without orientation, technological acceleration outrunning institutional capacity) and a significant open question at the level of infrastructure: whether collective understanding, once achieved, can be made to persist and remain revisable as participants, evidence, and circumstances change over time.

This relationship is treated deliberately as adjacency, not evidentiary support — Schmachtenberger's corpus is expressed primarily through essays, dialogues, and institutional work rather than peer-reviewed publication, and the comparison should not be read as claiming priority in either direction, nor as positioning one body of work against the other.

Part 5 — The Programme's Own Papers

The programme's own circulated papers, listed here so the page records the programme as well as the literature around it. The SSRN records are canonical. The Papers guide presents them for reading, and the Verified Citation Index records what they cite.

• Mayoh, Arne. "Legible Risk: Why Disclosure Isn't Enough." SSRN 7524218. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7524218.
• Mayoh, Arne. "Super-Optimization: When Optimization Outpaces the Capacity for Double-Loop Revision." SSRN 7517059. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7517059.
• Mayoh, Arne. "Succession Over Accumulation: Feedforward as a Candidate Mechanism of Continuity." SSRN 7363484. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7363484.
• Mayoh, Arne. "The Depreciation of Understanding: An Idea-community Measurement Proposal for Activation Capability." SSRN 7363618. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7363618.
• Mayoh, Arne. "Beyond Isolation: The Evidentiary Burden of Generalization." SSRN 7363638. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7363638.
• Mayoh, Arne. "Persistent Semantic Scaffolds and the Pay-It-Forward Record: Reconstruction Cost and Reasoning Lineage in Long-Horizon Human-AI Systems." SSRN 7332419. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7332419.
• Mayoh, Arne. "Invisible Opportunity Cost: The Unmeasured Economic Consequence of Reasoning Fragmentation." SSRN 7332338. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7332338.
• Mayoh, Arne. "The Continuity Threshold: Tipping Point Dynamics in the Degradation of Institutional Reasoning." SSRN 7312618. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7312618.
• Mayoh, Arne. "The Expansion Principle: How Explanatory Allocation Outgrows Its Warrant." SSRN 7312600. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7312600.
• Mayoh, Arne. "Passing It On: Continuity as the Foundational Drive Beneath Wellbeing." SSRN 7312598. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7312598.
• Mayoh, Arne. "Continuity Discounting: Why Systems Under Threat Underinvest in Knowledge Transmission." SSRN 7282579. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7282579.
• Mayoh, Arne. "Configuration-Process Correspondence: A Diagnostic for Snapshot Substitution in Evolving Systems." SSRN 7281938. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7281938.
• Mayoh, Arne. "The Anomalous Discovery Process: A Forensic Method for Reopening Explanatory Claims." SSRN 7281801. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7281801.
• Mayoh, Arne. "Explanatory Allocation: A Role- and Question-Indexed Framework for Multicausal Explanation." SSRN 7281658. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7281658.
• Mayoh, Arne. "Interpretive Entropy: The Degradation of Reasoning Coherence in Fragmented Systems." SSRN 7281578. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7281578.
• Mayoh, Arne. "How Much Ambiguity Is Owed." SSRN 7241778. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7241778.
• Mayoh, Arne. "Ambiguity as Field Condition: A Relational Framework for Preserving the Coherence of Understanding under Persistent Multiplicity." SSRN 7216482. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7216482.
• Mayoh, Arne. "Evidence That Settles, Evidence That Steers." SSRN 7210019. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7210019.
• Mayoh, Arne. "Copy of a Copy: Serial Reproduction and Context Collapse as a Compound Mechanism." SSRN 7209999. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7209999.
• Mayoh, Arne. "Recoverability: A Methodological Requirement for Continuous Coherent Adjustment." SSRN 7174238. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7174238.
• Mayoh, Arne. "Orientation Fatigue: The Felt Cost of Coherence Without Rest." SSRN 7111958. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7111958.
• Mayoh, Arne. "The Campfire and the Cave: Two Theories of Coherence." SSRN 7109138. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7109138.
• Mayoh, Arne. "Navigational Theory: Towards a Methodological Framework for Theoretical Validity in Open Complex Systems." SSRN 7058838. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7058838.
• Mayoh, Arne. "Measurement as Convention: Why Measurement Choices Are Prior Theoretical Commitments, Not Neutral Observations." SSRN 6931519. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.6931519.

Relation to the Research Programme

This bibliography does not attempt to replace these research traditions. Instead, it records how the Audited State Research Programme and the book The Wealth of Understanding sit among them at different levels: formal citation, public-facing synthesis, background influence, and intellectual adjacency. Exact formal provenance is kept separately in the Verified Citation Index, so this page can remain an orienting intellectual map rather than becoming a several-hundred-entry audit ledger.

The framework therefore sits at the intersection of:

• philosophy of science and measurement
• cybernetics and systems theory
• organisational memory and distributed cognition
• the economics of intangible capital
• phenomenology and field theory
• AI governance and decision provenance

Together these fields suggest the possibility of a new interdisciplinary research domain: infrastructure for cumulative reasoning.

• Research overview
• Research entry perspectives
• Publications
• Verified citation index