This article highlights the roles played by knowledge brokers in the history of economics. Knowledge creation is the joint product of teams of people engaged in parallel work. Economists do their professional work, whether that involves creating elaborate theories, gathering and interpreting data, or conducting experiments, all the while creating a variety of competing narratives about the economy. Economic agents go about their daily lives creating goods and services, caring for one another, saving and consuming, all the while making decisions based on whatever narratives they believe about how the economy functions. The various narratives between and among economists and economic agents create market opportunities for knowledge brokers, who sell their services to whoever will pay. They popularize economic insights in bestselling books, and work for think tanks or with various organizations, but they are also textbook writers, journal editors, and conference organizers, all of whom jointly contribute to the edifice of economic knowledge and facilitate communication. European beekeeping is used as an analogy.

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2018 年他的总统讲话：经济中的民间智慧

本文重点介绍了知识经纪人在经济学史上所扮演的角色。知识创造是从事平行工作的人的团队的联合产物。经济学家从事他们的专业工作，无论是创建详尽的理论、收集和解释数据，还是进行实验，同时创造各种关于经济的相互竞争的叙述。经济代理人在日常生活中创造商品和服务，互相照顾，储蓄和消费，同时根据他们相信的关于经济如何运作的任何叙述做出决策。经济学家和经济代理人之间的各种叙述为知识经纪人创造了市场机会，他们将服务出售给愿意出钱的人。他们在畅销书中普及经济见解，他们为智库或各种组织工作，但他们也是教科书作者、期刊编辑和会议组织者，他们共同为经济知识的大厦做出贡献，促进交流。欧洲养蜂被用作类比。