But economists aren't scientists. Most are employed to support government ideologies. And these IGM economists are handpicked by some committee. For example, t

But economists aren't scientists. Most are employed to support government ideologies. And these IGM economists are handpicked by some committee. For example, they're supposedly "geographically diverse". That means: Berkeley, Chicago, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Yale. Where's Dean Baker, one of the few who predicted the housing bubble crash & impact of 2007-2008? Stiglitz? Pettifor? Varoufakis? Piketty? Do they not have sufficiently "impeccable qualifications" even by bureaucratic credentialist standards? Pseudoscience and lying with statistics is the Economist Way. Consensus by a bunch of handpicked suit-wearing economists is nothing like the scientific consensus on global warming. "Globalization" and "free trade" are doublespeak; you have to prefix them with "corporate", like corporate globalization.