Plenty of economists always knew. But economics is not the clean uncontroversial hard science it would like to present itself as. It's a political battleground

Plenty of economists always knew. But economics is not the clean uncontroversial hard science it would like to present itself as. It's a political battleground shaped by wealth, influence, trends. And so it should be no shock there was neoliberal economics to go along with neoliberal politics.