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Which is about an order of magnitude too low.

He has an MPhil in economics, which is somewhat impressive but it's also entry-level, really.

He's wrong about the relationship between interest rates from 2008-Covid and poverty.

I've only glanced at his stuff just now. His book is normally the sort of thing I'd eat up, but it looks a bit bleh. Michael Lewis gets so, so much closer to the feel of the thing, even in his recent SBF book.

As for economists to follow, I think Adam Tooze is a genius. Not to say that he can tell you what's going to happen tomorrow, but as a window into the long perspective on what's going on right now, he's astonishing. The Wages of Destruction is still the best book I've read on Brexit. Also the leftist economists are often sharper and smarter with the data than the rightist/bank research report folk these days.