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Has anyone studied the relationship between doomsaying and economics? Perhaps there's a book in there somewhere, or at least a TED talk. Certainly for some, m
by motters 17y ago
Has anyone studied the relationship between doomsaying and economics? Perhaps there's a book in there somewhere, or at least a TED talk. Certainly for some, making protestations of doom - however implausible - appears to be a viable business model.
- arethuza 17y agoA lot of management consulting appears to be based on finding problems that don't really exist and then being paid to fix them. So yes, this is already an extremely well established business model.
- nfnaaron 17y agoWorks for politicians too.
- ckuehne 17y agoWhy, yes, of course it is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse.