it may be 'true' within the set of axioms on which it rests, but 'wrong' in that those axioms (rational self-seeking behaviour, etc) don't hold in reality. More, those axioms themselves could be reflections of capitalist ideology.

That does not mean it's infallible. Basically, Nassim Taleb stuff. We're wrong all the f*ing time and the more confident and blinded by our models we are, the greater are the effects of our screw ups, there IS such thing as hubris, we've known it long before but it's too abstract to constantly take it into consideration, so we just stop minding. It has happened countless times and there's little evidence we've been able to tame our cognitive blind spots at all, we're just humans, after all.

I didn't mean to disparage the math by my remark. I think it's interesting and I look forward to understanding it.

I think I meant that as a joke, so I've probably never seen more. Sorry to get your hopes up!