Most of those economists are political propagandists first and academics second. Unfortunately, there is no way of avoiding politics so all work gets tainted. I

Most of those economists are political propagandists first and academics second. Unfortunately, there is no way of avoiding politics so all work gets tainted. If psychology has a reproducible crisis, economics has an integrity crisis. To be clear, I am talking about the ones who get the limelight, no all of them, in general.