# kaal:claim:5886442-009

**Claim.** The constraints that define economic theory are not incidental empirical regularities; each is a direct consequence of the biological and cognitive limits of Homo sapiens.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- applies to scarcity, bounded rationality, informational asymmetry, temporal latency and positive transaction costs

**Source quote.**

> Each of these constraints is not an incidental empirical regularity. Each is a direct consequence of the biological and cognitive limits of Homo sapiens.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory* (2025), The AI2AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Assumptions, page 9

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886442

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**Topics.** economics

**Keywords.** anthropocentrism, economic-ontology, human-limitation, theory-foundations

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