The Rhetoric of the Right: Language Change and the Spread of the Market

ISBN-13: 9781138791497 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 200 str.

David George

Opis

This study demonstrates the subtle ways in which changes in the language associated with economic issues are reflective of a gradual but quantifiable conservative ideological shift.

Recenzje

"David George’s The Rhetoric of the Right carefully demonstrates the dramatic rightward shift in elite rhetoric about markets and government over the last generation. Using a deceptively simple method—counts of words and word pairings in the New York Times—George teases out a rich story of how corporate executives came to be seen as creative "entrepreneurs", markets as universally beneficial, and government as distant and inefficient, rather than a democratically controlled means for solving basic market failures." - Jacob S. Hacker, Stanley B. Resor Professor Political Science, Yale University

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Markets over Governments  3. Competition over Cooperation and Monopoly  4. Consumers over Citizens  5. Management over Labor  6. Growth over Progress, Justice, and Equality  7. Conclusion

O autorze

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