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Formal Mechanisms for Market Stability in Self-Interested Agent Societies: A Marketplace Simulation Study

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arXiv:2607. 08652v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-interested agents, left unconstrained, tend toward defection in repeated social dilemmas, causing cooperative gains from trade to collapse.

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