Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Thomas Mayer Author-Name-First: Thomas Author-Name-Last: Mayer Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics, University of California Davis Title: Improving Communication in Economics: A Task for Methodologists Abstract: 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. Length: 8 File-URL: https://repec.dss.ucdavis.edu/files/LWWCPknKNehhL9ATpSA9SPBV/00-6.pdf File-Format: application/pdf Number: 314 Classification-JEL: KeyWords: Creation-Date: 20030115 Handle: RePEc:cda:wpaper:314