My point #0 wasn't specifically aimed at you, but at the general state of the economic policy discourse. Sorry about that. Coming from a STEM field myself, the

My point #0 wasn't specifically aimed at you, but at the general state of the economic policy discourse. Sorry about that. Coming from a STEM field myself, the state of economics with wildly different schools of thought is quite perplexing. But I guess that comes with the territory, considering that you can't really do society-wide experiments on different economic models, and even if you could, societies are so complex it's very difficult to discern the effect of a single measure.