# Institutional change

`kaal:entity:institutional-change`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `institutional-change`. 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

3 claims across 3 works, 2021 to 2025.

**2021**

- [3782192-034](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782192-034) [mechanism/argued] -- Large decentralized networks such as national democracies do not make fundamental changes easily, because stability is their primary quality.
  > Large decentralized networks, like national democracies, don't make fundamental changes easily. Stability is their pri- mary quality.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Introduction to Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782192
- [3782201-028](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782201-028) [mechanism/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Path dependencies are a major obstacle to decentralizing institutions and businesses, because humans have psychological inertia and cling to familiar systems, especially those that have given them comfort in the past.
  > Path dependencies create a major obstacle to decentralizing our institutions and businesses. Humans have psychological inertia, and cling to any familiar system, but especially those that have given them comfort in the past.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Future of Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782201

**2025**

- [5886442-029](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5886442-029) [mechanism/argued] -- Path dependent institutional lock in loses its grip when agents can simulate the long run consequences of alternative institutional trajectories and migrate instantaneously to superior equilibria.
  > path-dependent lock-in effects—historically the most persistent source of institutional rigidity—lose their grip when agents can simulate the long-run consequences of alternative institutional trajectories and migrate instantaneously to superior equilibria
  Wulf A. Kaal, The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886442

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