Yes, that's a reason why I think books about economics and the social sciences are often better when written by journalists, not academics, because people who buy the book actually 
read it rather than just carrying it around in public as a status symbol or to signal orthodoxy by having it prominently displayed on a bookshelf in the background of a Zoom interview (that's right, I'm pointing at 
you, 
Thomas Piketty name droppers! How many of you got more than twenty pages into the 700 pages of dry academic exposition with 100 graphs and 20 data tables?).