The Rhetoric of the Right : Language Change and the Spread of the Market Hardback
by David George
Part of the Routledge Studies in the History of Economics series
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This study seeks to demonstrate the subtle ways in which changes in the language associated with economic issues are reflective of a gradual but quantifiable conservative ideological shift. In this rigorous analysis, David George uses as his data a century of word usage within The New York Times, starting in 1900.
It is not always obvious how the changes identified necessarily reflect a stronger prejudice toward laissez-faire free market capitalism, and so much of the book seeks to demonstrate the subtle ways in which the changing language indeed carries with it a political message.
This analysis is made through exploration of five major areas of focus: "economics rhetoric" scholarship and the growing "behavioral economics" school of thought; the discourse of government and taxation; the changing meaning of "competition," and "competitive"; changing attitudes toward labor; and the celebration of growth relative to the decline in attention to economic justice and social equality.
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- Pages:176 pages, 84 Tables, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:14/08/2014
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:176 pages, 84 Tables, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:14/08/2014
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- ISBN:9780415679978