In order to be a successful scientist, the first thing you need is a topic and an audience.
If you write about physics that could be used in advanced weapons, your audience is the Military Industrial Complex.
If medicine, it's Big Pharma.
If you write about Economics, your audience is the politicians.
In case this wasn't clear already, you need to tell your audience what they want to hear, and what they want to hear is that government should give them more money and more power.
Economics is a bit of an oddity since your audience is the politicians themselves.
So what you need to say to them is that having the state print money and give it to the politicians & their constituents is a technocratic BREAKTHROUGH and definitely not debasement and grift.