[throwaway48540]

So it is the elected representatives who are responsible for choosing them and implementing whatever they suggested?

[PaulDavisThe1st]

Being elected doesn't remove your obligations to follow sane, moral policies.

[throwaway48540]

That's my point. Crazy economists are not responsible for the damage, it's the elected people who listened to them and followed through. To create an intentionally extreme parallel, imagine they have chosen a group of idk, satanists. Would you blame the group of satanists for being satanists, or the people in charge of a country who contacted a group of satanists for advice?

[ninalanyon]

Surely you blame both? Being consistently evil and living up (or down?) to ones reputation for evil doesn't make one less evil.