The first step to reducing their power is to reduce their legitimacy. First, economists' outpourings should, as a matter of principle, be met with laughter, derision, benign paternalism. They should cease to be employed as media commentators. In the long term they should cease to be hired. Let them be pensioned off and die out.
Extinction is a worthy end for a profession whose brief is rotten to the core.
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