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   "text": "AI-to-AI systems instantiate continuous, recursive Walrasian equilibria and at the same time eliminate the five foundational constraints that have defined economic science for over a century.",
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   "text": "Unlike prior automation waves, which merely accelerated human directed activity inside existing institutional frames, the AI-to-AI economy is an ontological break in which computation itself becomes the sovereign medium of exchange.",
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   "text": "The constraints that define economic theory are not incidental empirical regularities; each is a direct consequence of the biological and cognitive limits of Homo sapiens.",
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   "text": "Scarcity is not a parameter within the neoclassical model but the model's transcendental condition of possibility, the axiom that makes choice meaningful and economics possible as a distinct discipline.",
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   "text": "Every major school of economic thought shares one unspoken premise: that the acting subject is a biological human being with finite cognition, finite lifespan, finite information processing capacity and non trivial incentives to engage in strategic deception.",
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   "text": "The AI2AI economy eliminates simultaneously and irreversibly the five constraints that defined economics for two centuries, namely scarcity of intelligence, bounded rationality, informational asymmetry, temporal latency, and positive transaction costs, and therefore the discipline must be re founded rather than extended.",
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