Re:Economists effectively assume that capitalism is unnecessary
by jedharris on Monday October 26, 2015 @03:26PM
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I don't think this addresses the issue. First, I think multiple representative agents have to be carefully defined to generate an equilibrium solution -- which implies some strong limitation on the space of possible agents.
Second, and more important, you have not described the "Buyer beware" message you claim is implicit here. What limitation does the requirement for representative agents impose on the behavior or range of applicability of these models?
Unless you can get specific about that we have to fall back on our dark suspicions.
If you want to reduce the error further, come up with a series of categories (or multiple representative agents) to describe the behavior of the buyers participating in your market. There's always going to be some margin of error on predictions though, because the future isn't predetermined and events can happen randomly.