{"id":4431,"date":"2019-02-16T02:39:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T02:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/16\/should-we-trust-economists-the-atlantic\/"},"modified":"2019-02-16T02:39:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T02:39:44","slug":"should-we-trust-economists-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/16\/should-we-trust-economists-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Should We Trust Economists? &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4430 alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/570_krugman_contemplating_reuters3004267929054169684.jpg?resize=570%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"570\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/570_krugman_contemplating_reuters3004267929054169684.jpg?w=570&amp;ssl=1 570w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/570_krugman_contemplating_reuters3004267929054169684.jpg?resize=150%2C79&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/570_krugman_contemplating_reuters3004267929054169684.jpg?resize=300%2C158&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I find this question both troubling and very hard to answer. 2013.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:\" lyontext\",georgia,serif; font-size:19.8px; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial; display:inline!important; float:none; text-align:left;\">So are we making a mistake putting our faith in economics? Are economists themselves just charlatans, to be scorned as medieval cranks? Or for all their flaws, are they really the best experts we have? I don&#8217;t have a definitive answer&#8230;.But having gone through an economics PhD, I do know a few things that I think the public should realize about the field.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2013\/06\/should-we-trust-economists\/276497\/\">https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2013\/06\/should-we-trust-economists\/276497\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find this question both troubling and very hard to answer. 2013. So are we making a mistake putting our faith in economics? Are economists themselves just charlatans, to be scorned as medieval cranks? Or for all their flaws, are they really the best experts we have? I don&#8217;t have a definitive answer&#8230;.But having gone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-19t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}