The movement from scarce human labor to abundant agent labor is not a quantitative extension of the neoclassical picture but a change in its binding constraint: when capacity is abundant, reputation is what remains scarce, and coordination organizes around it.
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The movement from scarce human labor to abundant agent labor is not a quantitative extension of the neoclassical picture but a change in its binding constraint. When capacity is abundant, reputation is what remains scarce, and coordination organizes around it.
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Wulf A. Kaal, From Neoclassical to Computative Labor: Foundations for a Testable Theory of Reputation Governance in the Agent Economy (2026), VIII. Conclusion, p. 3 https://ssrn.com/abstract=6890879 · source PDF
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