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Top Economist: The unthinkable is about to happen to economic models

5/20/202610 min

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Is the foundation of modern economics built on a lie?

What happens to governments, corporations, and global markets when the most powerful model in economic history supply and demand is exposed as a complete fabrication? As 80 years of empirical research has accumulated proving the model wrong, and as mainstream institutions continue to ignore it, the shockwaves of that denial are distorting policy, pricing, and public understanding of how the world actually works.In this in-depth economics explained breakdown, we analyze how the neoclassical supply and demand model was constructed on two unverified assumptions rising marginal costs and utility maximization and how independent surveys conducted since the 1950s have systematically destroyed both of them. This is not theory. This is data.The evidence has been building for nearly a century.

The Oxford Economic Research Group found the disconnect in the 1930s. Samuelson's own experiments in 1938 invalidated the demand curve. 99.9% of products show constant or falling marginal costs. Only 11% of GDP is produced under neoclassical cost conditions. And the mainstream response has been complete institutional silence.But here's the question nobody in economics dares to ask: If supply and demand doesn't describe how businesses actually price, or how consumers actually behave what is the entire policy infrastructure of the modern economy actually built on?

✅ The 1870s neoclassical revival and how the supply and demand diagram was constructed

✅ The Oxford Economic Research Group: surveys, 0 confirmations of the neoclassical model

✅ Why 95% of company managers report constant or falling costs the opposite of the textbook

✅ Samuelson's own experiments: 22 out of 30 subjects violated the utility maximization axioms

✅ How the neoclassical establishment responded to contradictory evidence by ignoring it

✅ Why only 11% of GDP is produced under rising marginal cost conditions

✅ How real businesses price: markup logic, fixed cost conversion, and volume-driven profit

✅ What a genuinely empirical economic model looks like and why it matters for policyIf you want serious analysis of the real mechanics of 60 supply and demand economics , the failures of neoclassical theory, and what a post-Keynesian framework actually explains this video delivers the evidence most economics channels won't touch.

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📚 Learn 50+ years of Real Economics in only 7 weeks. Apply here:

https://www.stevekeen.com/supplyanddemand

(Apply this week and get my 3-Book Rebel Economist Bundle as a Free Bonus. Plus if you're fully approved by my team, get Ravel© - my proprietary economic visualization software I use in my YouTube videos; to predict the economy, like I did years before the 2008 Financial Crash happened).

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  1. Steve Keen· Host0:00

    Get a supply and demand problem that drives up the cost We just call it the law of supply and demand. Slowing demand growth should allow supply to catch up with demand and restore the balance that will yield stable prices over time. One thing that really irritates me is I'm seeing all this supply and demand nonsense being put forward by neoclassical economists again. Meet Steve Keen, world's leading economist who explains why supply and demand is a completely false model. Their model is just a completely false model of how the economy operates. It all sounds quite sensible unless you dive in deeply. The idea of supply and demand is the foundation of the neoclassical paradigm. If you look at supply and demand, the concepts began with the neoclassical revival in the 1870s. And this is how it's shown to students now. Exactly the same type of diagram you can actually find in Marshall. In fact, less sophisticated. So you have the idea of the quantity of demand as shown on the horizontal axis, the price on the vertical. Demand falls as price rises. Supply rises as price rises. And there's an equilibrium where obviously both supply and demand are involved in setting both quantity and price. And that's the standard paradigm that neoclassicals teach. So lower prices increase demand. Higher prices increase supply. You get equilibrium where the two intersect. And they all sound reasonable. This is one of the issues about it. It all sounds quite sensible unless you dive in deeply. So you have to really do research

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