The Goal Hierarchy in Economics - Is There a Better Way?

I love it when there's a difficult problem and it seems like it can't be solved, and then with a twist of the wrist that allows you to see the problem differently, a solution emerges. But i just got tired of academics. For me, once stephen dubbner and i wrote or economics, i realized that the outside world was much more fun than the academic world. What am i doing trying to publish these papers that get twenty five citations, when i can be on the freconomic spot cast and talk to millions of people? Id no longer made any sense to me. So i'm trying to suggest that this podcast and freconomics l that was just another way