I was somewhat unimpressed. It’s hard to take discussion of “mainstream economics” very seriously—there are a LOT of different parts of economics study, and this author doesn’t explain what theory or policy he’s concerned about.
To the extent that economics overlaps with politics, it certainly is subject to many of the same failings—oversimplification, pandering, and selective choice of theory as truth. I blame politics more than economics for those things.
I was somewhat unimpressed. It’s hard to take discussion of “mainstream economics” very seriously—there are a LOT of different parts of economics study, and this author doesn’t explain what theory or policy he’s concerned about.
To the extent that economics overlaps with politics, it certainly is subject to many of the same failings—oversimplification, pandering, and selective choice of theory as truth. I blame politics more than economics for those things.