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Sam1's JournalNoah Smith — How normal people see macroeconomics
Most of the time, econ bloggers and columnists write as if we were speaking to an audience that has taken a few econ classes. But the more widely read our posts and columns become, the more our real audiences fail to fit this ideal. Most people who read us are smart and educated. But smart and educated non-economists ("normal people", if you will) see econ - and especially macro - in fundamentally different ways from economists.
I've been thinking about these differences for a while, and I've reached two major conclusions:
1. Normal people see macro as inherently political.
2. Normal people see macro as being mostly about redistribution rather than about efficiency....
http://mikenormaneconomics.blogspot.com/2013/07/noah-smith-how-normal-people-see.htm
Noah Smith — How normal people see macroeconomics
Most of the time, econ bloggers and columnists write as if we were speaking to an audience that has taken a few econ classes. But the more widely read our posts and columns become, the more our real audiences fail to fit this ideal. Most people who read us are smart and educated. But smart and educated non-economists ("normal people", if you will) see econ - and especially macro - in fundamentally different ways from economists.
I've been thinking about these differences for a while, and I've reached two major conclusions:
1. Normal people see macro as inherently political.
2. Normal people see macro as being mostly about redistribution rather than about efficiency....
http://mikenormaneconomics.blogspot.com/2013/07/noah-smith-how-normal-people-see.html
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