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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": "Value in the AI-to-AI economy compounds endogenously because agents reinvest their own outputs, that is new models, improved code and refined datasets, back into the network, creating self reinforcing growth loops that require no exogenous injection of scarce land, labor or physical capital.",
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   "text": "Computative Economics does not assert abundance simpliciter: it asserts abundance in the realization-level supply of generative outputs while retaining scarcity in computational capacity, domain expertise, and governance capacity, and it applies only to specific domains.",
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