First, with the rarest of exceptions, the many Economics schools have become wholly owned propaganda farms of right-wing ideologues. Consequently, virtually no meaningful research into economics gets done. Almost the whole of the discipline fiddles around the edges of a larger whole picture, and intentionally omits those aspects which argue against the right-wing notions and values of Capitalism.

Chief among those values is anti-intellectualism and the denigration of individual invention and technological creativity. Our lifestyle and economic growth are far more directly derived from the utilization of useful technology than from any sort of Capitalism. But shhhhh, that is an obvious truth you'll never hear in Business Schools.

The US culture of underemployment and diversion of creative genius is what is slowing the economy to a standstill. That along with the saturation of corruption in the political and financial spheres. A big part of what is keeping the economy afloat is back-engineering alien technology. That and some of our own creations, but who wants to be a technologist when they can make so much more as a lawyer or banker?