New AI economics volume from Brynjolfsson asks what AI agents do to firm boundaries
sethlazar · x · 2026-09-06
A new volume curated by Erik Brynjolfsson gathers scholars on the big economic questions raised by transformative AI. A chapter by ghadfield and Andrew Koh, "An Economy of AI Agents," asks which fundamentals of economic theory need rethinking—e.g., what happens to the boundary of the firm when governance costs become AI alignment costs?
Related event: NBER Publishes "The Economics of Transformative AI" Collection(4 posts)→
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