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Ezra Klein on "the tyranny of the economists"
Why is it that economists get to opine about -- and make policy on -- climate change, the social-safety net, and health care, to the exclusion of researchers in other fields (ecologists, sociologists, psychologists)?
Shorter version: why is Larry Summers viewed as an expert on everything?
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Joshua Rothman is a graduate student and Teaching Fellow in the Harvard English department, and an Instructor in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He teaches novels and political writing.
