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May 04, 2006

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Sunny

7) Economists have this tendency to try and put everything into bulleted reasons so as to provide a logical narrative. Editors prefer paragraphs, useless adjectives and prose.

Umbongo

I now understand why J K Galbraith cannot be considered an an economist.

Robert Schwartz

Steve Levitt? Tim Hartford?

dsquared

3) is clearly wrong, unless you think "dorky white guys who did economics degrees" are not a tribe, or alternatively that Bryan Caplan is not a hack.

Robert Jubb

Swap 1) and 6). With honourable exceptions, obviously.

Tim Worstall

As I commented over at Mankiw’s, I’m all for this thing about economists not writing for popular audiences. Gives half trained economists (and half trained hacks) like myself an opportunity to make a living.

I’ve been astonished by the reactions of books editors..."Hi, I’d like to do some reviews for you" "What subjects?" "Well, I know a little economics" "Great, we don’t have many people like that".

Phil at work

"Which one of us was stupider – him or me?"

Depends. Did you explain it in a way he could understand? If not, probably you.

angry_economist

Well I completely disagree - some of my own work...

http://www.careers-scotland.org.uk/careersscotland/nmsruntime/saveasdialog.asp?lID=18357&sID=6766

http://www.careers-scotland.org.uk/careersscotland/nmsruntime/saveasdialog.asp?lID=14526&sID=6779

Written for careers folks...

Some stuff for parents there too.

Of course you might all find this boring. But it was done to take economics to help folks make decisions about their lives...

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