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Thank you, Yves, for republishing James Galbraith’s beautiful 2009 essay “Who Are These Economists Anyway?” in which we read:
“Leading active members of today’s economics profession… have formed themselves into a kind of Politburo for correct economic thinking. As a general rule as one might generally expect from a gentleman’s club
this has placed them on the wrong side of every important policy issue, and not just recently but for decades. They predict disaster where none occurs. They deny the possibility of events that then happen. … They oppose the most basic, decent and sensible reforms, while offering placebos instead. They are always surprised when something untoward (like a recession) actually occurs. And when finally they sense that some position cannot be sustained, they do not reexamine their ideas. They do not consider the possibility of a flaw in logic or theory. Rather, they simply change the subject. No one loses face, in this club, for having been