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The Synthetic Economy, Before the Robots Get a Constitution
An independent research programme examining how software agents receive authority to contract, price, allocate, and settle across systems and jurisdictions.
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The programme treats permission, rather than production, as the key economic event: software agents may be authorised to contract, price, allocate, and settle even when law does not clearly recognise them. Its public record currently includes a Founding Thesis and a Revision & Evidence Ledger, while Working Paper No. 1 remains a private review candidate. The site says superseded versions will be preserved, allowing readers to follow claims, challenges, corrections, and withdrawals over time.
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