# Williamson

`kaal:entity:williamson`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `williamson`. 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, 2025 to 2026.

**2025**

- [5886442-017](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5886442-017) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- When hyper rational agents can write and execute complete state contingent contracts at negligible cost, the Williamsonian justification for hierarchical governance evaporates.
  > hyper-rational agents can write and execute complete state-contingent contracts at negligible cost, the Williamsonian justification for hierarchical governance evaporates
  Wulf A. Kaal, The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886442
- [5886442-026](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5886442-026) [mechanism/argued] -- Opportunism is engineered away in the AI-to-AI economy because agents have no endogenous psychological motives for guile and operate under mathematically specified, cryptographically verifiable objective functions.
  > Opportunism is engineered away: agents have no endogenous psychological motives for guile and operate under mathematically specified, cryptographically verifiable objective functions
  Wulf A. Kaal, The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886442

**2026**

- [6421319-017](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6421319-017) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- The Williamsonian justification for hierarchical governance evaporates when hyper rational agents can write and execute complete state contingent contracts at negligible cost, because the firm was an institutional response to the scarcity of human cognition.
  > When hyper-rational agents can write and execute complete state-contingent contracts at negligible cost, the Williamsonian justification for hierarchical governance evaporates.
  Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6421319

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