The Importance of Rhetoric and Framing

Stuart Birks ()
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Stuart Birks: Massey University

Chapter Chapter 1 in Rethinking Economics, 2015, pp 1-11 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract People describe phenomena in an attempt to understand them and to persuade others to accept some preferred position. Rhetoric relates to persuasion, and framing refers to the process of description through selection, emphasis, exclusion and elaboration. Economists focus on theory and empirical analysis. There are aspects of rhetoric and framing in this process. This chapter outlines the nature and importance of this. It identifies three paths which have received relatively little attention. The paths are from theory to the real world, from theory to empirical analysis and from empirical results to the real world. They have important implications for policy making.

Keywords: Rhetoric; Framing; Agenda setting; Traction; Paradigm; Analogy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-287-176-3_1

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