I know who the author is. Any time that you have an opinion about a controversy in a field, you are going to agree with and disagree with some famous people. We

I know who the author is. Any time that you have an opinion about a controversy in a field, you are going to agree with and disagree with some famous people. We can respect that we know less than the lead voices in controversies and still participate in them. I can certainly agree that there are economists who stick to simple models when they shouldn't, but there is simply too much written that addresses the problems in the op-ed to discount the field of economics as too simple or focused on too few variables.