Novels Better Than Academic Literature
10 November 2008
Disciples of A Whole New Mind and Made to Stick will not be surprised by this:
Those of us who were lit majors have known it all along: The novel works better than academic literature to explain global problems. But now some economists are validating that notion.
“Despite the regular flow of academic studies, expert reports, and policy position papers, it is arguably novelists who do as good a job – if not a better one – of representing and communicating the realities of international development,” says Dr. Dennis Rodgers from England’s Manchester University’s Brooks World Poverty Institute.
Stories sell ideas.
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Maybe there’s still a place for people like me yet.
I reckon there’s a place for you, David.