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Scientific rhetoric can have a profound impact on the perception of research; it can also drive and direct further … be so that authors call for significant policy changes? These questions are difficult to answer, because rhetoric on the … wording in these studies and their prevalence to ask for policy intervention. Furthermore, we examine whether the rhetoric …
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Scientific rhetoric can have a profound impact on the perception of research; it can a lso drive and direct further …, because rhetoric on the one hand, and content and methodology of the paper on the other, cannot be separated easily. We … when they call for policy activism or when they are more hesitant to do so. Furthermore, we examine whether the rhetoric …
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This paper considers how companies use their own mass communication media to create, with the aid of metaphors, a legitimizing image of their practices. The analysis is based on the example of two banks, both of which undertook massive staff and cost reductions between 2001 and 2003. Downsizing...
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Scientific rhetoric can have a profound impact on the perception of research; it can also drive and direct further …, because rhetoric on the one hand, and content and methodology of the paper on the other, cannot be separated easily. We … rhetoric used really reveals an author's prejudice on the topic which may also be reflected in data selection and thereby his …
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The rhetoric of economics has long claimed scientific objectivity, however the late, great economist Joan Robinson … learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.' This unique book examines the use of rhetoric in economics, focusing on …
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We analyze a three-player legislative bargaining game over an ideological and a distributive decision. Legislators are privately informed about their ideological intensities, i.e., the weight placed on the ideological decision relative to the weight placed on the distributive decision....
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Ten years ago, President Barack Obama's unprecedented address to the Muslim world from Cairo was hailed as a landmark in US-Middle Eastern relations and described by contemporary observers as a historical break in US foreign policy in the region. Yet it soon became clear that the president's...
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This paper addresses the link between the generation of economic knowledge and economic policy conclusions. Focusing on the case of research in international trade, I establish a taxonomy of rhetorical practices used to make such a link. The flexibility observed in these practices contrasts...
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This article introduces the concept of indirect speech and shows what it can contribute to understanding ‘legitimacy talk’ regarding international institutions. Indirect speech occurs when one kind of illocutionary act is used to communicate another. Examples include euphemism, some forms of...
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