The reason I ask is because I have heard this claim many times, but have never encountered an actual textbook that taught it, so I’m not sure if it has any basis in reality or is just a straw man (perhaps, designed to discredit economics, or merely an honest misunderstanding of the optimization principle).
The reason I ask is because I have heard this claim many times, but have never encountered an actual textbook that taught it, so I’m not sure if it has any basis in reality or is just a straw man (perhaps, designed to discredit economics, or merely an honest misunderstanding of the optimization principle).