Hating Economists but Loving Economics

Robert Shiller points to an interesting conflict in economics today: "We are in the midst of a boom in popular economics: books, articles, blogs, public lectures, all followed closely by the general public. Yet this boom in popular economics comes at a time when the general public seems to have lost faith in professional economists - because almost all of us failed to predict, or even warn of, the current economic crisis, the biggest since the Great Depression."

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