This paper surveys the denigration of economics and economists in the media and evaluates the truthfulness of the media's principal assertions. It seeks to answer the following questions: (a) why is economics denigrated in the media ? (b) why are economists silent in the face of such denigration? and (c) what might be done?
Keywords: Anti-economics, Economists, Media.
JEL Codes: A1, Z0
Australians have always disliked scientific economics and (still
more) scientific ...