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The Rhetoric of the Right: Language Change and the Spread of the Market (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics) - Softcover

Book 76 of 232: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

George, David

 
9781138791497: The Rhetoric of the Right: Language Change and the Spread of the Market (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics)
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ISBN 10: 1138791490 ISBN 13: 9781138791497
Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

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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About the Author

David George is Professor of Economics at La Salle University, USA.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138791490
ISBN 13 
9781138791497
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
200