The craft of economic storytelling
The New Bazaar
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The Disadvantages of Storytelling
Timothy Stoy: I don't regard it as a disadvantage that the facts are already out there. Normally, the stories that i tell have been very well researched by historians. There was one thing, one annoying little bit of truth that i stumbled into with florence nightingale. She said to her collaborator, william farr, saying to nightingale, you complain that your report would be dry. The drier, the better. That's not true. And then once you've done that, on top of that, you can get the editorialize right and then you start doing the messaging. We shouldno, you tell true stories, tim. You're not
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