American Lives, 2020 Election Depend on Best Storyteller of the Economy

Tim Libretti, PhD
Dialogue & Discourse
5 min readJan 5, 2020

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whitehouse.gov

What is the story of the U.S. economy?

Not unlike the proverbial elephant subject to scrutiny by a band of blind men, the nation’s economy is subject to multiple narrative descriptions depending on which component of the beast, whether our economy or an elephant, the blind man massages.

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Tim Libretti, PhD
Dialogue & Discourse

Professor of Literature, Political Economy enthusiast, Dad, always thinking about the optimal world