Comment by ysofunny

I'm reasonably sure that academic economics theories are an attempt to drive, to dictate how "things really work"

because that's what academia does and they know it. Academics talk about how to impact the 'next generations' of leaders all the time

economics are no different. e.g. today somebody studies economics and learn some theory about how stuff "really works", in 5-10 years they're a congressperson or some other high-ranking executive deciding what to do based on the theories they learned

so academics being off the mark means this plan as I very roughly outlined failed. reality asserts itself in spite of the wishes of a few corporate overlords