Why don't we trust experts any more? By Publius

The Economics

In the run-up to Brexit, Michael Gove, a leader of the pro-leave campaign, was challenged as to why he was proposing something which experts were fairly unanimous would be disastrous. He answered to the effect that we had all had our fill of experts.

Why is that, does it matter, and what can experts do about it?

Nobody really likes experts. Especially as …