Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at hand. It is not enough t… - John Kenneth Galbraith

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Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at hand. It is not enough to explain. The images that are in the mind of the writer must be made to reappear in the mind of the reader, and it is the absence of this ability that causes much economic writing to be condemned, quite properly, as abstract.