Academic Time Travel

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I've seen a lot of articles lately with titles like "Here's What Economists Get Wrong," and reading the articles as someone with a degree in economics — someone who is, at least by that definition, an economist — is a surreal experience. It's a bit like if you were a biochemist and ran into a trending essay about how what chemistry consistently misunderstands is that lead and gold are atomically different, with lots of comments on it like "Yes! God! Finally!"