[altmanaltman]

This is not "expert consensus", they bought in 5 economics with different political leanings and tried to get them to agree to common points (even though they do not agree with each other politically) and this was what they agreed on. And this was in 2012, 14 years ago. If you do the same experiment again with 100 economists, they might have a widely different plan.

Yes its an interesting article but you can't call it expert consensus and neither does NPR or any of the economists linked in there.

[rayiner]

The economists were asked to weigh in on behalf of their field, not just their personal views:

> There you have it, six major proposals that have broad agreement, at least among economists

The NPR article attributes the proposals to economists broadly, not just the specific panel.