Economist Russ Roberts does a great job addressing most of the points in this article. https://medium.com/@russroberts/the-economist-as-scapegoat-91b317a6823e

Economist Russ Roberts does a great job addressing most of the points in this article. https://medium.com/@russroberts/the-economist-as-scapegoat-91b317a6823e https://medium.com/@russroberts/the-economist-as-scapegoat-9... Although Hayek and Friedman may have been intellectually very interesting, I have a hard time believing they had much influence on the trajectory of public policy (at least, not nearly as much as OP's article implies). Speaking anecdotally, I studied economics in my undergrad, and I never encountered Friedman or Hayek in my curriculum. In fact, I can count the number of students I met familiar with their ideas on one hand.