Glossary of notions

Les 19 notions que l’argument mobilise, chacune en une phrase, avec la section qui la définit. Les sigles des institutions ont leur propre page : acronyms and conventions.

Invisible externalities

A harm unmeasured, measured but unpriced, or priced but not justiciable — three deficiencies, three remedies Defined at §2.2

Twenty families · five modes

The landscape of harm, by form and by transmission channel, anchored in third-party sources Defined at §2.3–2.4

Accountability deficit

Functions without a duty-holder; duty-holders without a forum; affected parties without information or avenue of redress Defined at §2.5

Law of attrition · power hypothesis

What survives is what obliges no one; the “blank” arises from the absence of a duty-holder, not from the veto alone Defined at §2.6–2.7; Box 9

Global Accountability Chain

Accountability as a property of architecture: three cumulative completenesses — functional, relational, procedural Defined at §1.4; §4

Negative mandates

Each body defined by what it forbids itself — the architecture’s first firewall Defined at §4.2 (P2); §4.7

Stopping rules

The institutional right not to conclude, not to attribute, not to price Defined at §1.7; §4.2

Interface integrity

No consequence on an output that does not carry its supporting evidence pack Defined at Boxes 4–5; §5.9

Principles P1–P10

The normative specification for any instantiation Defined at §4.2; §15.5

The seven functions

Measure → rate → price → adjust → finance → certify → adjudicate: one function, one duty-holder Defined at §5

The three instruments

The Charter (the norms) · the GAF (the parties’ obligations) · the Call (participation) Defined at §6

The two loops

Respond to the observed effect (the chain); prevent the foreseeable cascade (the preventive loop) Defined at §1.5; §15

Four categories of claim

Verifiable · programme-derived · design proposal · normative commitment — every sentence carries its own Defined at Tab. 1 (§1.10)

Three-rung ladder

Accounting incidence → plausible attribution → identified causality — never above its rung Defined at Box 10 (§9.2)

S0–S6 routing

Seven classes of spillover; only two (S3–S4) open efficiency correction Defined at §9.7

Non-additivity A / B / C

Market costs, welfare, transfers: three ontologies that never add up Defined at Box 2; §9.2

Fifteen mechanisms · seven rules

The anatomy of monetary spillover and its discipline of bounded attribution Defined at §9.1–9.2

The four test cases

Data centre · monetary · Sevilla · peace — four evidential statuses, never added together Defined at §8–11

M / F / I configurations · L, AP scales

The gradation of adoption: from light protocol to regime, through decision gates Defined at §4.6; §12

Source : Tableau 5 de l’ouvrage, « the objects of the argument ». Le texte des définitions est celui de l’auteur, en anglais.