Folk-economic beliefs as “evidential fiction”: Putting the economic public discourse back on track

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 41:e159 (2018)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Folk-economic beliefs may be regarded as “evidential fictions” that exploit the natural tendency of human cognition to organize itself in narrative form. Narrative counter-arguments are likely more effective than logical debunking. The challenge is to convey sound economic reasoning in narratively conspicuous forms – an opportunity for economics to rethink its role and agency in public discourse, in the spirit of its old classics.

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 98,169

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Folk-economic beliefs as moral intuitions.Neil Malhotra - 2018 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 41.

Analytics

Added to PP
2018-08-31

Downloads
25 (#739,998)

6 months
5 (#938,666)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?