Zero Interest Math

Econ101: Supply and Demand Econ101 presents a set of foundational notions about prices and markets, namely the supply and demand framework, which makes a lot of assumptions, some of them hard to justify. This leads to an intellectually fragile specialized analytical framework that does not allow for general or abstract thinking.  While it is useful to think about pricing and bidding processes in the context of opposing interests of buyers and sellers, supply and demand should be considered an emergent phenomenon, and not a foundational one.  Supply and demand emerges after property, markets, government, and infrastructure are established. The conditions leading to smooth and opposing price curves are complex, and supply and demand does not equip one to think very basically about how these opposing price curves emerge. Meanwhile, in a typical second year computer science course, a comparable topic on resource management is covered, and that is the limiting resource costs of algorithms.