Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/149678 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
CHOPE Working Paper No. 2011-02
Publisher: 
Duke University, Center for the History of Political Economy (CHOPE), Durham, NC
Abstract: 
Among American news magazines Newsweek holds the distinction of having hosted some of the most authoritative interpretation of economic events. Its cast of columnists included two of the most acclaimed academic economists and some of the most widely read business journalists of the late twentieth century. The purpose of this paper is to examine their writings as examples of "economic journalism". We used statistical methods to study word co-occurrences and identify vocabulary classes for bodies of texts for 1975-1990 and 1991-2007. We are thus able to distinguish two domains of discourse: political economy and the causal economy. We find traces of changes in economic discourse resulting from the end of the Cold War as well as point out differences in the language of academics and journalists.
Subjects: 
economic opinion
policy
economic journalism
text analysis
economic ontology
JEL: 
A11
B20
N01
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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