> I have plenty of right-wing economist colleagues, thanks. Can you name one? > I suspect this is also a hard thing to ‘prove’ with data, since it’s important

> I have plenty of right-wing economist colleagues, thanks. Can you name one? > I suspect this is also a hard thing to ‘prove’ with data, since it’s importantly about a shift in how people label left/centre/right. This is rather easy to prove with data: which type of concrete policies are they in support of (as opposed to some label, or party name or whatever, which might change its "content" over time). As a matter of fact, this being done and the trends hold.