# Marginal cost

`kaal:entity:marginal-cost`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `marginal-cost`. 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 2 works, 2004 to 2025.

**2004**

- [617681-009](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/617681-009) [mechanism/argued] -- A jurisdiction supplying corporate law as an unbundled statutory product faces low fixed costs, principally statute drafting, and near zero marginal costs, because additional users impose no new adjudication costs and registration costs are insignificant.
  > Fixed investment would be principally in drafting statutes. Each additional user of the jurisdiction's corporate law would not impose new adjudication costs, and the cost of registering additional corporate charters are relatively insignificant.
  Christian Kirchner, Richard W. Painter, Wulf A. Kaal, Regulatory Competition in EU Corporate Law after Inspire Art Unbundling Delaware's Product for Euro (2004). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=617681
- [617681-020](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/617681-020) [mechanism/argued] -- No Member State currently has courts specializing in corporate law comparable to the Delaware Court of Chancery, and establishing such courts or upgrading existing ones would be expensive for most Member States, with high marginal costs as usage grows.
  > No Member State currently has courts that specialize in corporate law as does the Delaware Court of Chancery. Establishing such specialized courts, or raising the level of expertise of existing courts, would be expensive for most Member States
  Christian Kirchner, Richard W. Painter, Wulf A. Kaal, Regulatory Competition in EU Corporate Law after Inspire Art Unbundling Delaware's Product for Euro (2004). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=617681

**2025**

- [5886442-011](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5886442-011) [mechanism/argued] -- Exponential improvement in compute efficiency combined with recursive self improvement of AI systems drives the marginal cost of additional intelligence and digital goods toward zero.
  > Exponential improvement in compute efficiency, combined with recursive self-improvement of AI systems, drives the marginal cost of additional intelligence and digital goods toward zero
  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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