Some Thoughts on Creativity and Economic Research | Oliver W. Kim
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Economics PhD Student, UC Berkeley
Some Thoughts on Creativity and Economic Research Mar 9, 2023 As of the fifth year of my economics PhD, I have published zero scientific papers, written a dozen short stories that no one has read, and sold precisely one painting. I am, therefore, one of the last people you should ask about creative success. But, like many amateurs peering enviously into the inner circle, I have a mild obsession with what I cannot quite do. Economic research is more akin to the creative arts than is commonly admitted—certainly by the art people, who would like to keep economists away from their parties—and ther
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