The two things we can count on is that economists will never see ‘it’ coming, and that economists will then use words like ‘nobody’ because acknowledging the existence of non-economists that have useful opinions is against the point of economics. Economists didn’t see the ‘China shock’ coming until 2015, but someone saw it coming in the mid-2000s, notably the large numbers of people who had to train their replacements, and the CEOs who made money transferring our factories.
Source: What Is the Point of Economics? – BIG by Matt Stoller
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