Martin Sandbu: It is too soon to say how the shock of the (largely unpredicted) financial crisis will change economics.

But it is clear that it has taken some sheen off the profession in the eyes of the rest of society.

Timothy Garton Ash’s characteristically readable, if unoriginal, op-ed criticising economics is just the latest illustration.

Martin Sandbu,  FT February 5, 2016

Economic theory discredited