To me, and no doubt to the other panelists, part of the process of pursuing the inexact aspects of economics is speaking honestly to the broader public, looking them in the eye, learning from them, reading the emails they send, and then searching one’s soul to decide whether one’s favored theory is really close to the truth.

Part of the answer is that economics is an inexact science, with exceptions to almost every pattern of behavior that economists take for granted.

But as an overall trade policy, tariffs are crude and inexact.

The problem is that an unobservable and imprecise variable – whose estimates are too inexact and volatile to provide more than a rough roadmap for a country’s journey toward fiscal rectitude – has become part of an international treaty and the national rules (sometimes of constitutional status) through which it is implemented.

Did I find them stupid, vague, or inexact?

Inexact in sentence

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