It does not say who the critics are, but the second critique sounds like mainstream economists.

Indeed, both critiques sound like mainstream economists, who are often a bit tone-deaf to that kind of internal contradiction.

BTW, Dan Brown would be a brilliant technical analyst. An ability to generate fictions about elaborate patterns with a very thin surface veneer of plausibility to persuade large numbers of the gullible that the patterns are real world phenomena - why, that's just the job description for a technical analyst.


I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.