The article analyses the role of economists in public discourse with regard to the financial crisis. Specifically, it … focuses on the prevailing rhetorical strategies and the economic convictions of leading German-speaking economists as they …-speaking economists. The observed stability of the dominant paradigm is attributed primarily to the very stable role of certain basic …

crises-related topics. Overall, our findings are consistent with the claim that economists were not engaged sufficiently in … NBER affiliated economists responded dramatically by switching their focus and efforts to studying and understanding the … crisis, its causes and its consequences. Thus, although economists were slow to see the crisis coming, they were fast to act …