When some of the economists mentioned are the president of the International Economic Association, a a chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, and a Nobel Prize winner who also happens to be the economics columnist for one of the largest U.S. newspapers -- I think it's fair to say that these are representative of mainstream economic thought.
Thank you for holding me accountable. The ideas I refer to (as much sense as they make to me) do not, indeed, seem to have much support of mainstream economics. (Contrary to what I thought before you had me look it up.)
I'm still not ready to write them off, in part because of the bias against professional economists you've already caught me exhibiting. But I can admit at this point that it's completely based on personal whim and not much actual substance, as long as the substance is determined by mainstream economics.
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