# kaal:claim:6421319-031

**Claim.** The governance apparatus New Institutional Economics developed to counteract opportunism, including vertical integration, relational contracting, reputation mechanisms, hostage taking, and third party arbitration, becomes superfluous in the AI2AI economy.

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

**Holds when.**

- conditional on the elimination of opportunism among autonomous agents

**Source quote.**

> The entire governance apparatus that NIE developed to counteract opportunism, including vertical integration, relational contracting, reputation mechanisms, hostage-taking, and third-party arbitration, becomes superfluous.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *The Collapse of Scarcity Economics* (2026), VII.B. The Dissolution of Opportunism, page 27

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

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**Failure mode.** NIE Governance Superfluity  (family: rule-obsolescence-and-ossification)

**Topics.** economics, institutional-design, governance-design

**Keywords.** new-institutional-economics, governance, opportunism, coase-theorem

**Related claims.**

- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5886442-031

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