Jon Murphy

I would say Isabella Weber, in arguing that economics should focus on how to implement democratically selected policies, has simply shifted the notion of economics to what we conventionally call public administration - a discipline where policy implementation has long been a central theme. Much like a lot of economists, Weber doesn't mention that literature and seems to think this idea is novel when it's really just plain old public administration - which also did this better, in my view, because public administration was never preoccupied with calling this fascism. The novel approach might be to say economists should focus its mechanism design insight into public administration problems of implementation, but that has been done, so I'm not really sure what's really new here beyond conflating economics with public administration.