He&#x27;s not talking about economists!<p>He said intellectuals (as in public intellectuals, particularly on the left but not always so), implicitly those outside mainstream economics.  He&#x27;s certainly rejecting the &quot;dissenting economists&quot;, but he&#x27;s mainly taking about politicians and other public figures (the first figure he savages is Goldsmith, who was somewhat influential in the UK and France but not at all an economist.