It's rare for people to go through a dozen years of public indoctrination camps and not end up with broken ideas regarding economics.
The principle is certainly not limited to economics of course.
It's true. Economics is among the worst, simply because it directly affects politics so all the incentives are aligned toward pro-state economics. However, I've recently come to the conclusion that there is no field that escapes distortion under the public education model. It shouldn't really be a surprise that education, like everything else government does, is corrupted by money and status games.
Even though Kuhn wrote his book in 1962 about how it takes the old eminent scholars dying to move science forward, the overall lesson - that authority and consensus are worthless concepts in science - still hasn't been assimilated into modern thinking. The average person still parrots everything their textbook/professor says without questioning it. Or even if they question the facts, they never question the underlying frameworks... I'll let this quote from a facebook forum by "modern fyziks" explain it better:
Authority is so deeply ingrained in our psyches that its effects are extremely subtle. People think they are not submitting to authority if they question what the teacher tells them, but the real trick is far more insidious: there's an intellectual attitude the teacher has that the students fails to question, or even notice.
It's not so much only that you believe in black holes, but that you view them as something to believe or disbelieve in the first place. Not so much that you believe a geometric line is made of points, but that you let the constant equivocation among different definitions of "point" slide. It's not so much that you accept E=mc^2, but that you go along with the reification of the word "energy" in the theory without batting an eye.
Even the rebel cannot escape. They rebel against the church, but they never lose the religious thinking habits.
To escape authority-mired thinking is like peeling away the layers of an onion. First you stop believing in the facts the authority figure is claiming, and you fancy yourself a rebel. Next you reject their theories or school of thought, believing yourself now truly independent. Then you reject their entire endeavor as fundamentally broken and set out on your own, thinking yourself fully free from authority.
Eventually, if you're lucky, you shake that lingering habit that you learned from the top intellectual charlatans: that of being loose with definitions. Finally you see the authority bound up in how society treats words themselves, realize not to ask what a word means but instead how it could be usefully defined, stop trying to prove definitions, and maybe even embrace visual explanations when possible.
My view still remains the same even after this ^ post.