The emergent proliferation of synthetic cognition challenges the long-heldassumption that only human labour creates economic value. Cognitarism isproposed as a socio-economic system predicated on artificial cognitionperforming the core functions of production and coordination. This theoreticalframework is situated against a chronology of economic systems: feudalism,mercantilism, capitalism, socialism, technocracy, and platform capitalism, toemphasize its novelty. Influenced by cybernetics, bounded rationality,smart-contract theory, the knowledge problem, and labour-value critiques,cognitarism envisages value emanating from algorithmic agents that process dataand generate novel outputs. Key principles include autonomous cognitiveproduction, distributed knowledge networks, reconfigured property rights toaccount for intangible algorithmic outputs, and governance structures centred ontransparency and ethical constraints. This article systematically explores thefoundations, core principles, and potential implications of cognitarism forglobal economics while recognising its limitations and ethical considerations.It concludes that cognitarism represents a radical departure fromhuman-labour-based economies, warranting further scholarly exploration.