# kaal:claim:6607458-039

**Claim.** Existing national accounts are built to measure terminal human consumption and therefore fail to capture intermediate value created in agent-to-agent transaction chains, so the measurement apparatus requires reconstruction.

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

**Holds when.**

- applies where value is created in agent-to-agent chains with no intervening human consumption event

**Source quote.**

> Existing national accounts are designed to measure terminal human consumption and do not capture intermediate value created in agent-to-agent transaction chains where no human consumption event occurs at any step prior to the terminal output. The measurement apparatus requires reconstruction.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Computative Economics A Framework for Economic Analysis under Computational Abundance* (2026), XI. Open Problems, page 30

**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.** National Accounts Blind Spot  (family: measurement-and-metric-failure)

**Topics.** research-methods, ai-and-agents

**Keywords.** national-accounts, measurement, gdp, agent-to-agent-transactions

**Related claims.**

- extends: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6421319-033

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