>You're suggesting that there is some coordinated and intentional scheme by the ruling class to use economists as a way to serve them I wasn't suggesting that.

>You're suggesting that there is some coordinated and intentional scheme by the ruling class to use economists as a way to serve them I wasn't suggesting that. OP did. Nothing I said suggests that economics is an incorruptible field. The problem is that a disproportionate demand for economists comes from people with an agenda. We all know that lobbying exists. When politicians get most of their knowledge about economics from these lobbyists rather than from less biased sources, of course it will seem like the field is more broken than it actually is.