Ha-Joon Chang, Gabriel Zucman, and Thomas Piketty are prestigious economists respected by Gary Stevenson.

Gary Stevenson believes that strong mechanisms prevent talented economics students from poor backgrounds from becoming academics, as they cannot afford the low pay compared to finance careers.

Qualified but non-institutionalized individuals such as Gary Stevenson, Zach Polanski, Richard Murphy, and Grace Blakeley are labeled as populists or pseudo-economists because they present information that the current system is unable to quantify.

Gary Stevenson believes that politicians, university economists, central bank economists, and media economists, whose job it is to fix global economic issues, are 'definitely not going to fix it.'

Gary Stevenson believes social media is the "real big angle of attack" for increasing the salience of wealth taxes and inequality.

Gary Stevenson believes public-facing economists in government, academia, and media are often not primarily trying to be right, but rather focused on winning elections, publishing papers, or getting clicks.