I don't think we should run government based on economists' predictions.
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When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.
It should not be the government running the economy.
Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can.
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
People today don't become economists to make the world a better place.
If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.
No one can forecast the economy with certainty.
The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.
What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
My faith in the economic potential of the low carbon economy is not an untested prediction.
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