Outside of academia, and a small slice of that, no one knows who these people are, and frankly, NO ONE CARES!
Exactly. There is gigantic chasm b/w academics and the real world. I know and deal with many. Economists are particularly bad. Academic ones are far more likely to be wrong than right. They are laughable in their ignorance. I beat several in a “game” predicting many economic indicators consistently. One worked for Alan Greenspan and he is ALWAYS completly wrong, not even close.