Well, I am not a big fan of today&#x27;s &quot;more debt, more gov&#x27;t spending = more prosperity&quot; but markets only parallelize a process and the best ones at this process survive while the worse ones drop out of the market.<p>So, in a sense, if you assume ideal markets to have an &quot;infinite number of participants&quot;, then yes, you can solve TSP in polynomial time but otherwise they will just evolve like bitcoin miners which as of yet still didn&#x27;t solve the &quot;find a decent hash&quot; problem an order of magnitude faster even though there are many of them.<p>My beef with economists is that they themselves are not subject to markets so the bad ones and the good ones survive and you end up with lots of noise.