New Watchdog Project Targets Neoliberal 'Hacks' Posing as Economic Prophets

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New Watchdog Project Targets Neoliberal 'Hacks' Posing as Economic Prophets
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'Anyone who claims they have the absolute answer to every economic question isn't being honest with you. They're being a hack, and they shouldn't be considered serious sources.'

"Economics isn't a hard science, it's a method of analysis—a set of tools that help us to understand a few particular ways of how the economy works."

"When these hacks receive air time, they often present the existing socio-economic order as a natural phenomenon, softly echoing Margaret Thatcher's famous 'no alternative' declaration," saidwho co-leads the Hack Watch project, in a reference to the former right-wing British prime minister's infamous neoliberal slogan.

"In a time of crisis after crisis, we cannot afford to restrict the public's imagination to the world as it was in 1992," Gyauch-Lewis asserted. "The staid old guard not only restricts the public conception of what economic policy can be, it misleads about what that view already is." "To allow the same few Clintonian New-Democrats to monopolize discourse does viewers, policymakers, and the world a great disservice," he added.

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