Luca, this is a delightful and laudable effort to partially redeem our species in the eyes of the general public. I wonder if one can argue that economists often suffer from a 'reverse Cassandra curse': to be believed in the many cases where our predictions are actually badly wrong....
As I reflect on your article, I am now tempted to argue that economists should in fact try harder to explain their views. I do see the significant risk of 'far danni', but I wonder if trying to explain can help them / us realize when in fact we do not understand things nearly as well as we think we do.
In any event I do find the Cassandra comparison quite appropriate -- all the more so for a Substack dedicated to the End of Times :)
lol the subtle cue on how no one would choose to sit next to an economist
lol i can think of quite a few other species that's unaware of their limitation, hollywood, elon, trump...
Luca, this is a delightful and laudable effort to partially redeem our species in the eyes of the general public. I wonder if one can argue that economists often suffer from a 'reverse Cassandra curse': to be believed in the many cases where our predictions are actually badly wrong....
As I reflect on your article, I am now tempted to argue that economists should in fact try harder to explain their views. I do see the significant risk of 'far danni', but I wonder if trying to explain can help them / us realize when in fact we do not understand things nearly as well as we think we do.
In any event I do find the Cassandra comparison quite appropriate -- all the more so for a Substack dedicated to the End of Times :)