We have arrived at the first mention of models!
“Representative agent models”.
Unfortunately, this seems to confirm all my suspicions. Complex systems made the math hard so let’s make an average human or an average company and pretend that has not stripped away any essential information.
Also I am really struggling with how they never test their theories. Or have any experiments. I’m getting cigar club vibes, where men sit around other men and say “profound” things they just make up and everyone nods sagely.