Haiku Economics

Stephen T. Ziliak, a professor of economics at the Roosevelt University, has a piece in the January issue of Poetry called “Haiku Economics.” He starts off:

I’m an economist. Yet poetry is my first stop on the way to invention—discovery of metaphors. No matter the audience, a model is a metaphor. Not every economist understands that. Poetry can fill the gap between reason and emotion, adding feelings to economics.

Read his entire article here.