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The Importance of Storytelling
David Frum: I'm a political economist. It means that to certain extent, I care about people who do stuff. And I care about how they think about the world because the world is insanely complex. We all in a sense act on stories on one level or another; these can be economic stories like trickle down works,. These can be social stories, right? But that's how humans work. The story that we've been telling ourselves since about 1980 was the world needs to integrate globalized, privatized, liberalized and we'll all get rich. Well, if you're a political economist, you spend any time studying the data that we have, we know that we're not