Yeah I might be making the mistake of thinking that economic policy is made by economic scientists.
We don't do that with climate, energy, education, or health... So I guess it's not fair to make the assumption for economic matters either.
I guess like many other areas of social policy (which... I assume we agree economic policy is) it that I'm very... I don't know... "Aware", maybe of the limitation of fields driven primarily by study as opposed to more hands on experimental methods.