I reckon nobody's reading at this point

Of course, nobody's in the least interested. It's so obvious that economists are good-faith scientifically-minded chaps who have no real influence on what is happening. So if it's a first-class fuck-up you know it's not the economists to blame. Don't you?

gk:

it's not hard to find austerians among conservative government officials [Hollande?] and their advisers, both in the uS and Europe, and even among a few conservative economists, it is hard to find many among mainstream economists

Right, most mainstream economists have spoken out loud and clear against austerity. We have all noticed, haven't we?

There's a word for what we're seeing in both quotes: denial. Will they soon move on to anger?