There's something called "economics", much like there is something called "psychiatry". [Maybe we need more sociology in policy-making. Maybe economics is too n

There's something called "economics", much like there is something called "psychiatry". [Maybe we need more sociology in policy-making. Maybe economics is too narrow a view on the world. But it is a specific field of study.] There are good reasons to be critical of psychiatry, but it's a red flag if someone tries to pass palmistry off as psychiatry. The problem here is that economics does have some prestige still, which is why predatory political activists try to pass their "heterodox" writings as belonging to it.