On inflation, economics has some explanation to do

failed to guess Fastest inflation in 40 yearsYou would think that the discipline of economics in the postmortem would be knee deep.

Not now. Out of a handful of individuals, economists have so far paid little attention to how their theories and models got inflation so wrong. Studies on inflation are yet to rise in comparison to the jumble of papers on the pandemic in 2020 from the National Bureau of Economic Research, the leading outlet of academic economics.