Abstract
One way for economists to influence society is to shape what Robert Shiller has called “economic stories”. This, in turn, puts the media in their role as professional storytellers in a central position. In this paper, I investigate how economists have been covered by print media since the 1960s: How has the quantitative visibility of economists developed over time? And how can news stories covering economists be characterized in terms of their content and framing? To answer the first question, I provide a comparison of economists’ quantitative media visibility in international newspapers. Exploring the second question, I build on a corpus of more than 12,000 German newspaper articles to conduct a case study on the German Council of Economic Experts, Germany’s most prominent group of economic experts.
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