# kaal:claim:6607458-009

**Claim.** Demand-side analyses that assume a proximate-consumption structure lose descriptive accuracy where the computative primitive holds, because most transactions occur among agents; welfare analysis in those domains must therefore be conducted at the terminal rather than the proximate level.

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

**Holds when.**

- applies in domains where the computative primitive holds

**Source quote.**

> The analytical consequence is that demand-side analyses that assume proximate-consumption structure lose descriptive accuracy in domains where the computative primitive holds. Welfare analysis in such domains must work at the terminal rather than proximate level.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Computative Economics A Framework for Economic Analysis under Computational Abundance* (2026), II.D. Agentic Decoupling and Terminal Consumption, page 9

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Computative Economics A Framework for Economic Analysis under Computational Abundance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6607458

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**Failure mode.** Proximate Consumption Assumption Failure  (family: research-design-limitation)

**Topics.** ai-and-agents

**Keywords.** welfare-analysis, terminal-consumption, demand-side-analysis, agent-to-agent-transactions

**Related claims.**

- extends: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6421319-005

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