# Neoclassical economics

`kaal:entity:neoclassical-economics`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 5 claims that carry the concept tag `neoclassical-economics`. 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

5 claims across 3 works, 2025 to 2026.

**2025**

- [5886442-010](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5886442-010) [definitional/argued] -- 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.
  > In short, scarcity is not a parameter in the neoclassical model. Scarcity is the model's transcendental condition of possibility.
  Wulf A. Kaal, The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886442
- [5886442-013](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5886442-013) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Price signals, which neoclassical theory celebrates as the elegant solution to allocation under scarcity, become increasingly irrelevant for the dominant factors of production in the agentic economy.
  > Price signals, which neoclassical theory celebrates as the elegant solution to the allocation problem under scarcity, become increasingly irrelevant for the dominant factors of production.
  Wulf A. Kaal, The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886442

**2026**

- [6421319-008](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6421319-008) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- The Marshallian supply and demand cross loses its analytical purchase when marginal cost approaches zero for the dominant inputs of the knowledge economy, because the upward sloping supply curve presupposes that additional output requires additional scarce inputs at increasing marginal cost.
  > When marginal cost approaches zero for the dominant inputs of the knowledge economy, the Marshallian cross loses its analytical purchase.
  Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6421319
- [6421319-009](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6421319-009) [mechanism/argued] -- Opportunity cost, the cornerstone of neoclassical rationality, approaches zero across a widening domain because an additional unit of sophisticated intelligence costs essentially nothing to produce and can be replicated instantaneously.
  > When an additional unit of sophisticated intelligence costs essentially nothing to produce and can be replicated instantaneously, the classic trade-off logic dissolves.
  Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6421319
- [6607458-003](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6607458-003) [condition/asserted] -- The generalization is deliberately bounded: Neoclassical Economics remains the correct framework wherever the scarcity primitive holds, which continues to cover production of physical goods whose marginal cost remains bounded above zero.
  > Neoclassical Economics remains the appropriate framework for the domain in which the scarcity primitive holds, which continues to cover the production of physical goods whose marginal cost remains bounded above zero.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Computative Economics A Framework for Economic Analysis under Computational Abundance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6607458

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