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Context as the Binding Constraint

20 · Paper · production economics · 6pp · 2026

A microeconomic analysis of what happens when the marginal cost of computational labor approaches zero. When MC(AI compute) → 0, the production function for creative services undergoes a phase transition — the binding constraint shifts from labor to accumulated context, the non-transferable stock of shared vocabulary, taste calibration, and problem-history that determines total factor productivity. Classical production theory applied to the AI-augmented studio.

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