Author says they were influenced by a class from Bard College. I will note that Bard is home of the far-left Levy Institute think tank.<p>It&#x27;s hypocritical too, because institutions like Bard and UMKC are home to a lot of heterodox economists who rant and rave against the neoclassical orthodoxy for making unrealistic assumptions, and then they pull off rigged pseudo-Paretian chicanery like this. An economy of zero transaction cost spot-exchanging automatons without so much as a capital stock.<p>This is nothing but a political provocation.