Most great economists are probably misunderstood as having a lack of whimsy. Those lesser economists may actually lack it. Let’s all aspire to maintaining it.
Whimsy Just Doesn’t Show Up on a Spreadsheet
What a fun article, noting that “in college, where I forced myself through economics, microeconomics and game theory, … I floundered, making rookie mistakes like inverting supply and demand curves and not pushing my production-possibility frontier to its maximum level of production.”
Either she at least has the language down cold or she googles/wikipedias very, very well. If whimsy helps her write (and can help others of us write), then I’m all for it!