# Robin Hanson **Domain:** Economics / Whole-Brain Emulation **Robin Hanson** is an economist known in this corpus for treating emulated people not only as an identity problem but as an economic population. _The Age of Em_ examines a hypothetical society of brain emulations and follows consequences for labor, copying, speed, inequality, cities and institutions. That systems perspective makes Hanson a direct precursor to [[wiki/Pantheon|Pantheon]]'s CloudWorld. Once executable persons exist at scale, questions of compute, subjective time, replication and employment become political economy. The value of the comparison is architectural, not predictive: neither the book nor the series establishes that whole-brain emulation is technically possible. The constitutional extension is [[wiki/Continuity Citizenship|Continuity Citizenship]]. A market model can describe allocation without deciding which operations violate persons. Copying, throttling, dormancy and retirement require rights and due process in addition to prices. Related: [[wiki/Continuity Economics|Continuity Economics]], [[wiki/Continuity Resource Allocation|Continuity Resource Allocation]], [[wiki/Post-Biological Personhood|Post-Biological Personhood]]. External reference: [The Age of Em](https://ageofem.com/).