The Value of Think Tanks

Events in 2016 confounded the so-called “experts” leading to declarations about the death of expertise.  Following the outcome of the Brexit vote, or the Trump election to the USA Presidency, a key part of the discussion was why did the experts, analysts, predictors get it wrong?  A conclusion of this discussion was that the experts did not understand how things worked globally, nationally or locally, and, essentially, they can no longer be trusted.  As...