Expecting better was a big shift in that i did some of that kind of writing before. It is is partly driven, largely driven by feeling economics has a lot to say about decision making and how you run your life. In the past decade economists have more frequently tried to engage with a broader audience. But when i first did this, there was an enormous amount of scepticism,. An enormous amount of like, i can't believe you're doing this. This is so weird. Like, thats not what wey hired you to do.
Emily Oster is an economist, professor, and author. Her new book is The Family Firm.
”[COVID] has been 18 months of being a person who is slightly more public, who is saying things that are somewhat more controversial, where people yell at me a lot. ... I do much less reading of the comments than I did early on because I found that eventually I just got mad and that's not a productive way to interact. And it affects how I think about what I write, and I would like what I write to be the things that I think are true, not the things I think will avoid people being angry.”
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