But then so are most other people, from scientists to supermodels. The answer, I believe, is unrequited longing.
People come to economists in search of emotional or political satisfaction.
They are therefore dismayed to find a discipline that seems to be all equations, diagrams, and impenetrable jargon. There are some excuses for that impenetrability. Still, there should be a lot more accessible, interesting, even exciting writing about economics than there is. Yet that explanation is usually not forthcoming. We are a profession without popularizers.