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Simple - they get clicks. Pop culture knows the movie 'Big Short', but they probably have never heard of a Nobel prized economist.
by mbesto 4y ago
Simple - they get clicks.
Pop culture knows the movie 'Big Short', but they probably have never heard of a Nobel prized economist.
- dominotw 4y ago> but they probably have never heard of a Nobel prized economist. I think paul krugman is an pop culture figure too.
- atdrummond 4y agoProbably for all the wrong reasons. He was pretty widely mocked at LSE when I attended there a decade ago and that’s an institution I’d expect him to still be well regarded at. He traded his academic bonafides years ago.
- Dracophoenix 4y agoMilton Friedman had a television show on PBS in the 1980s. It's not as though economists don't sell well on television.
- Gibbon1 4y agoPaul Krugman writes a column in the New York Times.
- anm89 4y agoPaul Krugman is under qualified to write about economics for a hishschool newspaper.
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- rchaud 4y agoThat was the 1980s and it was PBS, one of the biggest of the few major channels on American airwaves. It wouldn't work today because economists cannot boil down complex ideas into 15 second videos.