Storytelling in Economics

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Imagined futures: fictional expectations in the economy (2013, background): “Economic theory Economic theories themselves can be seen as an influential form of storytelling in the economy (McCloskey 1985, 1990a).”
Reinterpreting Time in Fit Theory: Crafting and Recrafting Narratives of Fit in Medias Res (2011, background): “The stories people construct naturally incorporate time, serve as an interpretive lens on the environment, and help to provide answers to the “why” questions of fit, such as “why don’t I fit here” or “why should I stay” (cf., McClosky, 1990).”
Narrative Styles of Managers and Workers (2000, background): “The next step was to revisit the data and focus on the stories the research partici pants told to explain their relationships and experiences of organizational life (McClosky, 1990; Pye, 1995).”