...Maria Grafström Abstract This article explores how economic information was turned into newsworthy content in Sweden during the 1960s and 1970s. Professional norms and identities of “business journalists” were during the 1960s yet to be developed, and there were concerns raised whether issues about...

...Louis Uchitelle Prodded by the Great Recession, journalists and economists are gradually altering their views of the economy, freeing themselves from the mainstream paradigm of the last thirty years: that the natural tendency of a market economy caught in a recession is to right itself, returning...

...Philip Bennett Why is economics a field where mainstream journalism generally follows and seldom leads? Why is there so little independent, original journalistic inquiry, and as a result so few earth-shaking scoops or must-read revelations? Economics confounds many journalists assigned to cover...

... a key role in McDonald's transition from documentary writer to business journalist. Game theory gave McDonald a journalistic device to discover business stories and to give those stories a driving tension; he called it a “story engine.” After decades writing with game theory, it began to serve...

...Vítězslav Sommer The article explores the effort by economists and economic journalists in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s to translate economic knowledge to the political language of reform communism. Czechoslovak economists aimed to cultivate public understanding of economic issues and to disseminate...

... and complementary perspectives. It aims to characterize the novelty of the program. The article relates the appearance of the program to various broader transformations of the relations between the economic and journalistic fields that occurred in France in the 1980s and 1990s. It focuses on the charismatic leader...

...Paul Charles Milazzo Abstract Previous scholars have described the American business journalist Henry Hazlitt as “an intellectual middleman for orthodox economics.” This article examines Hazlitt's career during the immediate post–World War II era to flesh out how he performed this intermediary role...

... 1956, economic experts, including politicians and journalists as well as economists, began to observe a peculiarity accompanying the ongoing inflation, namely, an apparent lack of excess aggregate demand, and they placed great emphasis on cost-push inflation theories in their interpretations...

...Luca Fiorito; Cosma Orsi The aim of this paper is to provide a compressive assessment of Thomas Nixon Carver's thought—from his early formative years in the 1880s to his post WWII career as a journalist and pamphleteer. The main (albeit not exclusive) focus of this paper will be on the theoretical...

...Craufurd Goodwin Walter Lippmann was the most respected American journalist of the twentieth century. During the Great Depression and World War II he devoted most of his thrice-weekly columns in the New York Herald Tribune to exploring the causes of recession and the economics of war. He...

... was not the conventional one, for it involved recognizing inner circles within the elite discourse of politicians and journalists as well as between those circles and the public. This essay uses this framework, involving attempts to communicate across different boundaries, to view his well-known series of works...

... is that economics is featured in news when it is aligned with preexisting journalism practices. Third, journalists acknowledge the existence of domains of expertise but do not feel accountable to them. Ideas that economists may think of as their own are appropriated, repurposed, reinterpreted, and then again...

... prominent among “publicists”—educated people or theoreticians writing as journalists—and political elites. These two developments influenced those who sought to modernize society and who in their different ways expressed a new approach known as industrialisme . These writers put forward several versions...

... monetary theorist. Adherents of the various schools seem to be in no hurry to resolve their differences. It's as if there were many contending Virgils in Dante's inferno, each tugging us journalists in a different direction down there in the dark. Another thing that's hard about covering economics...

...Chris Giles [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 In late 2021, a Bank of England working paper described the role of economics news journalists as a relatively simple piece of optimization. When reporting the actions of central bankers, the paper said...

... . New York : Cambridge University Press . Solman Paul . 2004 . Comments on Economic Education and Journalism . Journal of Economic Education 35.4 : 407 – 11 . Roundtable Presentation Fractals in Economic Journalism Tiago Mata “Economists should get to know their journalists...

... of the Chilean model from different angles, breaking the economists' technocratic position as the unique lens through which to examine the economy. Activists, academics, and journalists played a fundamental role in these debates, taking critical positions vis-à-vis the model. This is not to say that the model...

... Enlightener William J. Barber Louis Uchitelle reports that journalists in recent decades have been inclined to report on economics “as if it were a science.” He further observes that the Great Recession has stimulated many of them to rethink that position. It has also spurred at least some of them...

... BASTIAT, F. 1801 1 1 SEP BAUDRILLART, 1821 1850 landowner, journalist 1 SEP H. professor, pol...

... enhancing albeit imperfectly and often with undesirable distributional effects. If anything, the biggest struggles I encountered as a journalist trained in economics involved excessive sensitivity to nuance. I sometimes had a hard time getting articles I deemed important onto the front page, or even...