There's always fog, Jody.
But the rocks inside it still don't move.
Every nation that adopted the specific kind of ideas Myerson is selling has failed, usually ending up as a totalitarian hellhole.
Every single one.
If you run over the box with a steamroller, even Schrödinger would be certain that the cat is dead.
This is not "bad luck" or "random chance." There are philosophies behind these failures, just like there are philosophies behind free and prosperous nations.
This isn't just "literary criticism." There's a hell of a lot more at stake than deciding whether Shakespeare or Homer is better. Nations live and die on ideas.
An angel dancing on the head of a pin.