ABSTRACT
If the proposals of the preceding chapters – that economics is conversation, academic economists are a distinct culture – have bewildered you, brace yourself for even more confusion. In the conversation of economists, attention is what really matters – both getting it and giving it. In a world whose banner is in the largest of letters “truth” and whose primary virtue is in the sternest of directives “disinterest,” how far we have strayed. Yet, attention is the name of the game.
