To attach some further cynicism to this comment:

The going rate to buy a "respectable" politician appears to be donations in the $10k to $1 million range. Buying an economist is going to be much cheaper than that.

Anyone with a bit of money behind them can pay for any sort of economics they like. Note that many famous economists are vulnerable to financial or political influence.

It is not a safe field for uncovering facts about reality without being a confidently independent thinker and researcher.