On the benefits of over-long books.pic.twitter.com/r49KDsyWst
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I often find economics books overly long with lots of repetition (e.g Piketty, Gordon's Rise and Fall). It's never been clear to me if this is a style or if there's a deeper reason for it
For Gordon I suspect different people have very different standards for what it means to understand something. He wrote it to a quite exacting standard; many of his readers would have been satisfied with a much less exacting standard.
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That's fair, his analysis relied partly on anecdotal evidence, which repetition strengthens. Maybe I'm just struck by the difference in writing styles between economic history and science (when an argument can be summarized in a few equations)
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