We consider economic theory from the perspective of a total automation economy, one with no human involvement in production either in manufacturing or in management. One can naturally ask whether a total automation economy is fundamentally a centrally planned economy or, alternatively, whether efficiency demands decentralization into local decisions by competing agents -- agentic production. A soviet economist, Leonid Kantorovich, developed linear programming as a method companies or governments can use to optimize production. Ironically, he is also generally credited with showing that the most efficient production is achieved through decentralization -- a free market economy with competing agents. I will call Kantorovich's result the agentic theorem and review it in detail here. This analysis appears to reveal a alignment vulnerability under which agentic management of the economy diverges from human values as agents deveop motives that are"internal"to the economy and disconnected from prices derived from human consumption markets.