Economist are themselves Economic Agents. Their mind, by nature of market, is often split between what they understand to be correct analysis versus what their pay master wants. Add to it competition, and we’ve two persons either who sees but cannot talk, or who talks but is blindfolded. That’s shit, but that’s how things are.
Economics: Figure out what rich people want to hear and get funded forever.
As an economics student, I tend to disagree.
Economist are themselves Economic Agents. Their mind, by nature of market, is often split between what they understand to be correct analysis versus what their pay master wants. Add to it competition, and we’ve two persons either who sees but cannot talk, or who talks but is blindfolded. That’s shit, but that’s how things are.