# Regulatory obsolescence `kaal:entity:regulatory-obsolescence` **Status.** derived This node is assembled mechanically from the 7 claims that carry the concept tag `regulatory-obsolescence`. 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 7 claims across 6 works, 2013 to 2026. **2013** - [2267560-010](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2267560-010) [failure/asserted] *(failure mode)* -- Even institutional arrangements that produce optimal governance solutions generate solutions that become suboptimal over time, necessitating rule revision, updating, and revocation. > Even if institutional arrangements produce optimal governance solutions, these solutions can become suboptimal over time, necessitating rule revision, updating, and revocation. Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Law Dynamic Regulation in a New Institutional Economics Framework (2013). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2267560 - [2267560-019](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2267560-019) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- NIE acknowledges that transaction costs, imperfect information, and bounded rationality influence the rulemaking process, with the consequence that even optimal solutions to regulatory problems become unstable and suboptimal over time. > NIE acknowledges that transaction costs, imperfect information, and bounded rationality influence the rulemaking process (Homann and Kirchner 1995; Furubotn and Richter 2005) and even optimal solutions to regulatory problems can become unstable and suboptimal over time. Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Law Dynamic Regulation in a New Institutional Economics Framework (2013). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2267560 - [2273857-002](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2273857-002) [mechanism/argued] -- Because economic conditions and the corresponding requirements for optimal and stable rules are constantly evolving, a rule set that is optimal at enactment ceases to be optimal over time. > The economic conditions and the corresponding requirements for optimal and stable rules are constantly evolving, suggesting that a different set of rules could be optimal. Wulf A. Kaal, Dynamic Regulation of the Financial Services Industry (2013). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2273857 **2016** - [2808132-023](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2808132-023) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Because formal rulemaking takes months and often years, regulators are still processing the previous product launch while new products reach the market, and new regulations pertaining to an innovative product can be obsolete before they are finalized. > rulemaking in the existing regulatory infrastructure, taking months and often years of regulatory procedure, is still dealing with the last product launch. New regulations pertaining to an innovative product could be obsolete before they are finalized.90 Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, How to Regulate Disruptive Innovation - From Facts to Data (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2808132 **2017** - [2834531-007](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2834531-007) [failure/asserted] *(failure mode)* -- New regulations addressed to an innovative product can be obsolete before they are even finalized. > New regulations pertaining to an innovative product could be obsolete before they are finalized. Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, Regulation Tomorrow What Happens When Technology Is Faster Than the Law (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2834531 **2025** - [5886442-040](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5886442-040) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Continued reliance on scarcity based models, human centric institutions and twentieth century regulatory architectures risks not mere inefficiency but civilizational irrelevance, that is regulatory obsolescence, catastrophic inequality and digital feudalism in which abundance accrues to whoever controls the compute substrate. > Continued reliance on scarcity-based models, human-centric institutions, and twentieth-century regulatory architectures risks not mere inefficiency but civilizational irrelevance: regulatory obsolescence, catastrophic inequality, and the emergence of digital feudalism Wulf A. Kaal, The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886442 **2026** - [6421319-006](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6421319-006) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- The institutional lag between technological capability and governance capacity is approaching a structural singularity in which governance instruments designed for the prior era cannot meaningfully constrain or direct the new forces. > The institutional lag is approaching a structural singularity in which governance instruments designed for the previous era cannot meaningfully constrain or direct the forces operating in the new one. Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6421319 ## Verify Every claim above resolves to a record carrying a verbatim source quote, the sha256 of the source PDF, and a preformatted citation. 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