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QUOTE `{}`	The researchers call the potential shift in transaction costs a 'Coasean Singularity,' in a nod to the economist Ronald Coase, who in 1937 posited that transaction costs shape how firms and markets organize.
QUOTE `{}`	AI agents, the authors assert, are poised to dramatically reduce transaction costs, and that when those costs collapse, market structures change, too.