Re:Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders
by bluGill on Thursday January 18, 2018 @04:36PM
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There are many people who benefit from un-free markets. Economists are one group - a free market might be better, but then they don't have a job advising powerful politicians. Thus a free market is not in their best interest.
That's impossible, because if the right answer is to leave the market alone then economists can help gather the political will to stay the visible hand - and if the right answer is to change things then the right person to have decide what to do is someone that has thought deeply about it, by definition making them an economist.