# kaal:claim:6421319-013

**Claim.** Welfare theorems, growth accounting, cost benefit analysis, and public economics each lose their foundation when the dominant inputs into production are self replicating, self improving, and essentially costless, because each tool is defined relative to finite inputs.

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

**Holds when.**

- applies to subfields built on the scarcity axiom

**Source quote.**

> Each of these analytical tools loses its foundation when the dominant inputs into production are self-replicating, self-improving, and essentially costless.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *The Collapse of Scarcity Economics* (2026), III.B. The Production-Possibility Frontier Approaches Infinity, page 14

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6421319

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `0f4f68e56ee48bb8b2d73d3ab7fd96fa572e76c195694ffa740360704c1b172d` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202026%20-%20The%20Collapse%20of%20Scarcity%20Economics.pdf

**Failure mode.** Subfield Foundation Collapse  (family: research-design-limitation)

**Topics.** economics

**Keywords.** welfare-economics, growth-accounting, cost-benefit-analysis, scarcity-axiom

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