[ubernostrum]

Economics is subject to the Pauli Exclusion Principle.

[treerock]

Okay, call me dumb, but I don't get it. I looked up wikipedia, and I still don't get it. What, in economics, is analogous to fermions and quantum state?

[ubernostrum]

Assertion: In any modern economical system, capacity exists to produce small houses for "everyone who wishes one".

Disproof: For certain possible values of "everyone", the Pauli Exclusion Principle prevents the simultaneous existence of a sufficient number of distinct small houses.

[wavefunction]

This is only true because classical economics are predicated on scarcity, much of which is artificial and shared inequally and inequitably.

[bennyg]

Clint Eastwood's Pauli Exclusion Principle:

This energy state ain't big enough for the both of us.

[homeomorphic]

Tell me, what in economics plays the role of identical particles?

[randallsquared]

Relative economic position of actors? Not sure if that's what ubernostrum was referring to.

[VLM]

Read grimtrigger's story in the HN comments. You'll get the idea rather quickly.