BS! Economics is simply a field of study. Adam Smith wrote the book. David Ricardo took Adam Smith's observations, and twisted them into an evil plot to impoverish and enslave the masses, to the benefit of a few government crooks, using the force of government. Ricardo's deceptions resulted in a century of war and poverty for the UK and continental Europe, unnecessary suffering my hundreds of millions, and stalled the advances of human civilization.
The neo-con RINOs have been pushing Ricardo's snake oil for the past three decades or more. Lying, cheating, stealing, and treason are to blame for the US and other nations' economic woes. People did that; not a field of study.
Formerly respectable economists took their payoffs, and switched their sermons to favor the global thieves. All the "globalism" corruption of economics is the exact sort of corruption that "climate science" is to science and meteorology. People pushing snake-oil theories have to hide data that disagree with their scam, and fabricate data that support the scam.
This author is a member of the CFR, by the way. Have at it.
The founding fathers rejected every tenant of Adam Smith's BS theory. Thank God.
In 1913 we went back to Smith and Keynes and now look. We are in ruins.