Did we not believe this before some economists said something? Didn't all of us readers think that fiction has a powerful way of teaching truths about the human experience?
Those of us who were lit majors have known it all along: The novel works better than academic literature to explain global problems. But now some economists are validating that notion.
“Despite the regular flow of academic studies, expert reports, and policy position papers, it is arguably novelists who do as good a job – if not a better one – of representing and communicating the realities of international development,” says Dr. Dennis Rodgers from England’s Manchester University’s Brooks World Poverty Institute.
From "Why novels are best at explaining world problems" in the Christian Science Monitor.
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