I find this question both troubling and very hard to answer. 2013.

So are we making a mistake putting our faith in economics? Are economists themselves just charlatans, to be scorned as medieval cranks? Or for all their flaws, are they really the best experts we have? I don’t have a definitive answer….But having gone through an economics PhD, I do know a few things that I think the public should realize about the field.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/06/should-we-trust-economists/276497/