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Improving Communication in Economics: A Task for Methodologists

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    (Department of Economics, University of California Davis)

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Economists do not communicate efficiently and methodologists should expand their bailiwick to deal with this and with similar practical problems. Both the quality of and the professional prestige associated with popular writing should be enhanced. Academic economists need to pay more attention to communicating with economists in business and government. Within academic economics information flooding is a serious problem. Several ways of ameliorating this problem exist.

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  • Thomas Mayer, 2003. "Improving Communication in Economics: A Task for Methodologists," Working Papers 314, University of California, Davis, Department of Economics.
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    1. Bruno S. Frey & Reiner Eichenberger, 1993. "American and European Economics and Economists," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 7(4), pages 185-193, Fall.
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