# kaal:claim:5886442-013

**Claim.** Price signals, which neoclassical theory celebrates as the elegant solution to allocation under scarcity, become increasingly irrelevant for the dominant factors of production in the agentic economy.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- holds for post scarce cognitive and digital inputs, not for materially scarce goods

**Source quote.**

> Price signals, which neoclassical theory celebrates as the elegant solution to the allocation problem under scarcity, become increasingly irrelevant for the dominant factors of production.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory* (2025), Neoclassical Economics and the Scarcity Postulate, page 12

**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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**Failure mode.** price signal irrelevance  (family: valuation-and-pricing-failure)

**Topics.** economics

**Keywords.** price-mechanism, allocation, scarcity, neoclassical-economics

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