your avge. Economist (esp. the ones who picked ez-biz courses over all that bother of rigor.)
I wonder why he calls self an Economist, when apparently he has quite better literacy chops?

And in perfect confluence with Jon Stewart's comments with Terry Gross, today ... arises his first Q:
Why oh why can't we have a better press corps?

As to prime Causes, though ...
Methinks that the quarter less-heard-from (or in any-event: whose daily POVs were hardly-ever covered over the decades by bevies of mini-cam-toting Scribes) are
-- as in the US in 2010 --
the non-Represented daily laborers and other workers who actually did productive things / not the bureaucrats' version.

But then.. I haven't read this one (either.)
http://www.amazon.co...ure/dp/1426401140
So much to grok ... too much unsorted data to filter, so I'll punt on Mr. D-L's take.