[oldcigarette]

Economics, sociology and psychology all tend to say very little with very many words to the extent that the message gets lost and people don't even know what they are discussing.

You see it to a lesser extent in software and math too though - just look at any mathematical article on wikipedia. The "dynamic programming" article is a good one for this.

I'm not sure this is a new problem.

[ramraj07]

I agree your premise in a limited context: non fiction books.

Non fiction books often pad out very little info into an entire tome simply because that’s one of the few ways you can make money from your idea.

But this doesn’t apply just to economics. The most egregious of this are books about programming languages and architecture if you ask me.

In philosophy and elsewhere, a good author might write a lot but still be concise. That’s just because they have a lot to say. Or they need more examples.

This article wasn’t even that verbose. I don’t see how what he said related to star man though, but that’s a different topic.

[ChadNauseam]

I don't know much about sociology and psychology, but I can say that I'm surprised by this characterization of economics. I'm sure you know what you're talking about, but it's my impression that economics is a subject with a lot of depth, and also tries to communicate its ideas to laypeople with concise approximations like "P=MC"