I would go one step further and say that the willingness to challenge professional economists – and other experts – should be the foundation of democracy. When you think about it, if all we have to do is to listen to the experts, what is the point of having a democracy at all? Unless we want our societies to be run by a body of self-elected experts, we all have to learn economics and challenge professional economists.
-Ha-Joon Chang
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