--- fragment_peers: articles: artigos articles-and-books: artigos-e-livros books: livros discussing-and-proposing-improvements: discutir-e-propor-melhorias following-the-publications: como-acompanhar-as-publicacoes from-reading-to-experimentation: da-leitura-a-experimentacao open-legibility: open-legibility the-economics-of-legibility: a-economia-da-legibilidade lang: en peer: pt/materials/ shared_fragments: false title: Articles and books --- # Articles and books As AI makes execution cheaper, what happens to the value of human choices and to the way work is organized? The book examines this shift; the paper investigates why so many contributions are preserved only after selection and under which conditions that order can change. These questions meet when we consider not only how to execute a solution, but how problems, criteria and possibilities for cooperation come to be formulated. The collection brings together essays and books and will receive new publications as the investigations progress, presenting each work with a summary, authorship, edition and complete text in Portuguese and English. ## Articles

Diogo Carlotto · Essay under review · CC-BY-4.0 · PT-BR original · EN translation

### [The Economics of Legibility](article-text.md)

Reading Costs, Operator Order, and the Endogenous Formation of the Choice Set

A decision depends on the alternatives that come to be considered. The essay examines how the costs of preserving, retrieving and interpreting contributions shape those alternatives — and under what conditions AI can expand them. The proposed change separates preserving a contribution from deciding to invest in it, with implications for demand formation, economic participation and authority within organizations.
[Read article](article-text.md) · [Download Markdown EN](downloads/the-economics-of-legibility-en.md) · [Download Markdown PT-BR](downloads/a-economia-da-legibilidade.md)

[Introduction](article-text.md#introduction) · [Economic and institutional implications](article-text.md#section-7) · [Conclusion](article-text.md#section-8)

## Books

Under review

### [Open Legibility](book-text.md)
## Following the publications Read on the site or download the Markdown files. The editorial sources are in Brazilian Portuguese. The English editions are translations prepared and checked with AI assistance. The label “under review” describes the text's editorial state. It does not mean that the work has appeared in a journal or undergone peer review. ## Discussing and proposing improvements Sources of the works are maintained in the [publications](https://github.com/LegibleProtocol/publicationsDev) repository. To discuss an argument, suggest a reference or report an error, open an [issue](https://github.com/LegibleProtocol/publicationsDev/issues), identifying the work, edition and passage. To suggest a file change, submit a pull request. The [contribution policy](https://github.com/LegibleProtocol/publicationsDev/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING_EN.md) explains editorial review and submission conditions. ## From reading to experimentation While the works develop the thesis and its implications, the [specification](specification.md) establishes the technical contracts, allowing the protocol to be tried without making reading every work or agreeing with its arguments a condition of use. [Your first draft](first-draft.md) leads to preparing and exchanging contributions. The experience lets you observe the effort required and what another person can use. Assessing economic advantage requires comparing that result with other ways of working under equivalent conditions. [Genealogy and recognition](records.md) contains records selected to accompany published contributions. They help readers examine declarations and relationships; assessment of each work still depends on its content.