For the next two years, Biden needs to bring back the economists

Time to make technocracy great again

Back in April of 2021, Ezra Klein wrote what I think is one of the most important columns of the Biden era explaining that economists and “thinking like an economist” had a reduced role in the Biden administration relative to the administrations of Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.

You can see that in a literal sense where the heads of the NEC and OMB don’…