Atomic Economics

Value Reconstruction and Civilizational Transition in the Age of Human-Machine Symbiosis

von Star Li, Hong Li

318 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

We inhabit a world of atoms - but not the atoms of physics. The social bond that once anchored human existence - the extended family, the guild, the collective workplace - has dissolved into isolated particles. Individuals, liberated from organic community, now confront the market as discrete units, connected only by the thinnest of threads. This is the condition of atomization: a diagnosis that runs from Simmel's metropolitan man to Arendt's solitary individual to Tian's post-danwei society.But atomization, this book argues, is not merely a crisis. It is the embryo of a new economic form. When the atomized individual encounters the agentic revolution - autonomous AIs capable of perception, reasoning, decision, and action - a fundamentally new paradigm comes into being. Atomic Economics is the systematic theoretical construction of this paradigm.The central thesis is stark: when social bonds dissolve from organic community into atomized individuals, and when those individuals are reorganized through agentic technologies and elastic chain infrastructure into programmable networks of collaboration, the fundamental units of economic activity, the carriers of value, the mechanisms of exchange, and the modes of governance all undergo a paradigm shift. The economic atom - which may be human, autonomous agent, or human-agent hybrid - becomes the basic unit of analysis. Atoms combine through programmable bonds into economic molecules: organizations, networks, DAOs. Value is created through three modes - labor, algorithm, and synergy - and distributed through contribution-based mechanisms.This book does not merely extend existing economic frameworks. It interrogates their foundational assumptions: the nature of the economic subject, the theory of value, the concept of property, the structure of markets. Drawing on philosophical anthropology (Exteriorization Theory), sociology (atomization), economics (from Smith to Arthur), computer science (agent architectures, blockchain), legal theory, and complex systems science, it constructs a unified framework that addresses the micro-, meso-, and macroeconomic dynamics of the atomized economy - and its normative governance.The stakes could not be higher. The atom is not the end. Just as chemical atoms bond to form the richness of the material world, economic atoms too will reorganize - under new technological conditions and institutional frameworks - into more complex, more efficient, and more just structures. Atomic Economics is the theory of that reorganization: a framework for understanding and shaping the civilizational transition from platform capitalism to the Atomic Commonwealth.Keywords: Atomic Economics, atomization, agentic economy, human-machine symbiosis, programmable property, constitutional governance, elastic chain, distributive justice.

• ISBN: 9798193121367
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.08.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp