I have it on good authority that Robert Reich isn’t entirely up with and connected to good economic thinking. Paul Krugman was quite gleefully rude about this back in the 1990s, for example.

That’s fine of course, there’s no reason that everyone must be an expert in every subject. My own knowledge of Patristics ends about where there was that bishop who said he wanted to be good but not just yet, there was still more fun to be had. This would be a problem if I were to decide to tell the world about the early Church Fathers. Reich’s blind spot would be a problem if he tried to teach us about the economy.