I know a great real world example of this. A friend of mine is an expert in economics, specifically Georgism and Modern Monetary Theory (although he has orthodox economics training as well). He's worked in policy in a range of institutions, and now works at the Australian Federal Treasury on policy. It's taken something like 8 years for that to happen. He's not a radical revolutionary, he's not a sleeper cell or a Trojan horse for some ideology, and he hasn't made any secret of the schools of economics in which he's trained when applying for any of his roles.
The more people working in government who understand what money is and how it works, the better off society will be. Where as many in the MMT or heterodox economics community generally seek to make as much noise as possible outside the building, I have a hunch that quietly and dilligently doing work inside the building is much more effective even though it's less cathartic (and there is documentary evidence that this has been the approach by libertarian economics adherents for quite some time![1]).
The more people working in government who understand what money is and how it works, the better off society will be. Where as many in the MMT or heterodox economics community generally seek to make as much noise as possible outside the building, I have a hunch that quietly and dilligently doing work inside the building is much more effective even though it's less cathartic (and there is documentary evidence that this has been the approach by libertarian economics adherents for quite some time![1]).
[1] https://www.amazon.com.au/Democracy-Chains-Nancy-MacLean/dp/...