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The Coasean Singularity? Demand, Supply, and Market Design with AI Agents

Peyman Shahidi, Gili Rusak, Benjamin S. Manning, Andrey Fradkin and John J. Horton

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Economic analysis
Publication
NBER · Economics of Transformative AI
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Author-hosted chapter, listed September 2026 on Shahidi’s publication page
Source date
September 2026
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23 October 2026
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Publicly readable; rights remain with the authors or publisher.

Economic argument, not measured welfare effects. Publication month from the author’s page; the PDF itself is undated. Fradkin discloses employment at Amazon; the chapter’s views are the authors’ own. No separate validity period has been established for the finding.

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Who controls the agentic internet?

Sections 2, 4 and 6.2; author PDF pp. 4–6, 10–12 and 16–17

Economic argument, not measured welfare effects. Publication month from the author’s page; the PDF itself is undated. Fradkin discloses employment at Amazon; the chapter’s views are the authors’ own.

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Supports this claim:Access shapes the usable shortlist Convenience and commercial incentives can diverge Reliability and user control are separate dimensions