Yet economists seem unlikely to abandon the belief that theirs is a discipline that makes "progress" and settles issues, in a way that resembles a hard science such as physics or chemistry.
The conservative opposition, in a mood of deep introversion after being turfed out last October, can hardly challenge the handling of a crisis it helped to create.
THE credit crisis was kind to the reputation of John Maynard Keynes, whose scribbling s from over 70 years ago inspired practical men of action to fight the recession with uninhibited stimulus.