I think that the incentives in academia are not well aligned for doing economics right. But it does not follow that a person that does not have any deep expertise in economics has better models than economists.
Gathering a few thousand people in isolated communities, giving everyone acid regularly (including sometimes children) and exposing them to radical political insights that were themselves conceived on acid trips seems very dangerous to me (even though I feel cultural affinity).
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I recommend reading Leary's Neuropolitics, for instance, and his autobiography. His writing and thinking is interesting and usually ecstatic, and I have deep respect for what he tried to do. But if you want to improve the world, you must be rational, not ecstatic and wild.
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Thank you for the recommendations, I'll add them to my booklist.
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