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   "text": "Against critics who call quantum econophysics purely phenomenological, the author holds that quantum economics still offers a genuinely novel perspective that challenges the assumptions of classical economics.",
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   "text": "In a quantum economy, core economic variables such as supply, demand, price, and utility are not fixed quantities but quantum states that can occupy several configurations at once until an observation or measurement resolves them into one value.",
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   "text": "Because the states of economic agents are entangled, a change in one part of the economy can affect other parts instantaneously rather than through a traceable chain of transmission, producing a more interconnected and dynamic system than classical economics can describe.",
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   "text": "Quantum economics and New Institutional Economics treat uncertainty in opposite ways: NIE casts institutions as devices for reducing uncertainty and stabilizing the economy, while quantum economics builds uncertainty and indeterminacy into economic interaction as a fundamental feature.",
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   "text": "Within a decade the majority of advanced economy value creation will occur in agentic systems whose operational logic violates every foundational assumption of received economic theory.",
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