About the project
Make the argument
visible.
A claim graph reconstructs a paper’s reasoning
as the paper itself presents it.
The paper behind theorize
Mapping Economic Theory with AI
Read the paper on SSRNThe published paper
Claims are anchored to a page and to the exact words they come from.
The argument map
Connections trace how assumptions and intermediate steps support a result.
A reconstruction to check
Machine extraction is provisional. Authors can correct claims and connections.
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Every claim has a source.
Each box represents one atomic claim, assumption, definition, or result. Select it to read its statement and the passage from which it was extracted.
An arrow means the paper derives the target from its sources. When several sources meet at a dot, they are used jointly in a single derivation. Separate derivations may lead to the same claim; the side panel lists each one as its own group under “Depends on”.
Colours follow the paper’s own presentation: green for headline conclusions, blue for major results, white for supporting steps, and grey for context. Conclusions sit at the top of the map and premises at the bottom. A graph makes no judgment about whether a step is correct.
Explore an argument02
Extracted from the paper alone.
A frontier language model reconstructs the argument under an extraction contract that excludes error hunting, external criticism, and severity judgments.
This is one stage of a wider research pipeline on the formal verification of published economic theory. Independent stages audit papers, map findings onto the graph, and rederive claims after minimal corrections.
Summary statistics for the collection03
A map is a reconstruction.
Every graph in this library is machine-extracted and provisional until verified. It can misstate a claim, connect the wrong sources, or miss an alternative derivation.
Author feedback matters most when a missing route changes how an argument depends on a particular step. In any paper’s graph, click the claim and use “Author feedback” in the side panel: your note reaches us by email with the paper and claim identifier attached.
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The research team.
- Elliott Ash ETH Zurich
- Andrea Ciccarone ETH Zurich
- Sergio Galletta Sapienza University of Rome