Throw away the ladder comes from Ludwig Wittgenstein My propositions are elucidatory in this way he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless , when he has climbed out through them , on them , over them . He must so to speak throw away the ladder , after he has climbed up on it . From the reference , it is clear that the author is advocating for clearly showing the limits of General Equilibrium Theory after going through its content , not for eliminating it . <| sep |> But it does . Just ask one if many that have done it themselves . <| sep |> I hope people don ' t actually think taunting means you ' re a noob . <| sep |> Thank you . I ' ve much reading to do ! <| sep |> I think the point is that a normal engineer is using fancy language to make themselves sound smarter