Crime novels for economists
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2013-05-12
Following up on this post by Noah Smith on economics in science fiction, Mark Palko writes on economics in crime fiction.
Just as almost all science fiction is ultimately about politics, one could say that just about all crime fiction is about economics.
But if I had to pick one crime novelist with an economics focus, I’d pick George V. Higgins. In one of his novels, his character Jerry Kennedy had a riff on the difference between guys who get a salary and guys who have to work for every dollar. But, really, almost all his novels are full of economics.
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