# Coasean singularity

`kaal:entity:coasean-singularity`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 4 claims that carry the concept tag `coasean-singularity`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

4 claims across 2 works, 2025 to 2026.

**2025**

- [5886442-002](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5886442-002) [definitional/asserted] -- Kaal stipulates two constructs: Agentic Decoupling, the progressive severance of value creation from human labor and consumption, and the Coasean Singularity, the point at which the theoretical justification for hierarchical governance disappears.
  > The analysis introduces Agentic Decoupling, described as the progressive severance of value creation from human labor and consumption. And the Coasean Singularity, described as the point at which the theoretical justification for hierarchical governance disappears.
  Wulf A. Kaal, The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886442
- [5886442-027](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5886442-027) [definitional/argued] -- When all five drivers of positive transaction costs approach zero at once, transaction costs themselves asymptotically approach zero, a point the author names the Coasean Singularity: the point at which the rationale for the firm, for hierarchical governance, for relational contracting and for most formal institutions disappears.
  > When all five drivers of positive transaction costs approach zero simultaneously, transaction costs themselves asymptotically approach zero. This is what I have termed the Coasean Singularity herein, that is, the point at which the very rationale for the firm
  Wulf A. Kaal, The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886442
- [5886442-036](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5886442-036) [design/argued] -- When the five drivers of positive transaction costs are simultaneously eliminated, the theoretical justification for firms, contracts and most formal institutions disappears, and the task of governance shifts from minimizing frictions to orchestrating abundance.
  > When the five drivers of positive transaction costs are simultaneously eliminated, the theoretical justification for firms, contracts, and most formal institutions disappears. Governance shifts from minimizing frictions to orchestrating abundance
  Wulf A. Kaal, The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886442

**2026**

- [6421319-030](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6421319-030) [mechanism/argued] -- The AI2AI economy eliminates all the drivers of positive transaction costs at the substrate level simultaneously: opportunism is engineered away because agents lack endogenous psychological motives for guile and operate under cryptographically verifiable objective functions.
  > The AI2AI economy simultaneously eliminates every one of these constraints at the substrate level. Opportunism is engineered away: agents possess no endogenous psychological motives for guile and operate under cryptographically verifiable objective functions.
  Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6421319

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