# kaal:claim:6192998-040

**Claim.** Systems without citation graphs will fail to price foundational contributions correctly, producing market failure through underproduction of foundational work as agent generated knowledge increasingly builds on prior agent generated knowledge.

**Type.** predictive  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- AI agent ecosystems where knowledge production compounds

**Source quote.**

> Systems without citation graphs will fail to correctly price foundational contributions, leading to market failure through underproduction of foundational work.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Evolution of Domain-Specific Reputation Systems From Binary Validation to Citation-Weighted Knowledge Attribution* (2026), VII.B. Implications for AI Agent Ecosystems, page 57

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Domain-Specific Reputation Systems From Binary Validation to Citation-Weighted Knowledge Attribution (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6192998

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**Failure mode.** underproduction-of-foundational-work  (family: collective-action-and-coordination-failure)

**Topics.** economics, citation-and-knowledge, ai-and-agents

**Keywords.** market-failure, foundational-work, citation-graphs, ai-agents, underproduction

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