I find the claim about there being no rational actors a bit odd. If that's the case, then how do economies work at all? At some level, most people must be able to act in their own interest to some degree.
It boils down to complexity: Humans are designed to deal with an impossibly complex world. We have shortcuts that have developed to do so, called emotions, biases, gut feelings, instincts and so on. It is easy enough to manipulate these shortcuts, making a rational person act in a way most people would regard as irrational. This is called marketing, propaganda, gas-lighting or The Nobel Lie, depending on context.
You can always tell someone is subscribing to quack economic theories whenever they use the term "Keynesian Economics" You'll never hear someone with actual training in economics use that term (outside of a history of economics lesson)
The only people that use the term "Keynesian Economics" are people who learned economics from blog articles and don't have any idea what they are talking about.
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