%0 Journal Article
%T Paging Paul Krugman: Toward a Topoi of an Exemplar Public Intellectual in the Natural and Physical Sciences
%A Michael J. Zerbe
%J Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
%@ 1541-3780
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0047281618754723
%X American economist Paul Krugman has become a highly influential public intellectual in the social sciences. The natural and physical sciences need a public intellectual like Krugman to make more effective arguments for the existence and urgency of climate change, the benefits of vaccine use, and other pressing issues. To demonstrate how such a goal can be achieved, this article presents a rhetorical analysis of Krugman¡¯s public intellectual writing in The New York Times from 2013 to 2016. The substantial public impact of this body of work stems from Krugman¡¯s use of rhetorical strategies that are both similar to and¡ªmore importantly¡ªa departure from strategies used by other well-known public intellectuals in the sciences
%K science
%K communication
%K public intellectual
%K Paul Krugman
%K rhetorical analysis
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0047281618754723