Economic Popularity Index Versus Bitcoin

Mapping Worldwide Interest in Key Economic Terms, and the Surge of Bitcoin

Custom Plot.ly chart using Google Trends data. (Terms such as Capitalism, or QE, etc. are combined into one term by various iterations: i.e. Capitalism = “Capitalism”+”Capitalist”)

Narrative maps are fascinating attempts to frame the evolution of various theories building the foundation of a political economy. Ben Hunt, for example, formulates narrative maps to categorize and compare economic keywords or phrases across huge troves of mainstream news…