A well written and perceptive piece. It seems nuts that the columnist was not allowed to use charts. They are what I look for and are ideal to summarise a lot of information in a readable fashion - hence the popularity of "sources such as "Our World in Data" and "The Outlier".
Good journalism explains why the economy behaves the way it does. But the next frontier is understanding how ideas, policies and financial products actually reach people. Too often we celebrate elegant policy while ignoring the last mile of adoption. In Africa, the constraint is rarely economic theory; it's distribution theory. The best economists of the future may be those who can connect incentives with implementation, not just evidence with explanation.
A well written and perceptive piece. It seems nuts that the columnist was not allowed to use charts. They are what I look for and are ideal to summarise a lot of information in a readable fashion - hence the popularity of "sources such as "Our World in Data" and "The Outlier".
Good journalism explains why the economy behaves the way it does. But the next frontier is understanding how ideas, policies and financial products actually reach people. Too often we celebrate elegant policy while ignoring the last mile of adoption. In Africa, the constraint is rarely economic theory; it's distribution theory. The best economists of the future may be those who can connect incentives with implementation, not just evidence with explanation.
Well done to Die Burger
Johan, you could have titled it "An Ode to the Economist"...
Very informative. I developed a lot of insight about the media I did not have before.