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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: The financial crash further worsened the deep inequality that has long plagued America's economy.
Chapter 3: Although offered an unprecedented chance, progressives failed to redirect economic debate after the major national crisis.
Chapter 4: By clarifying complex ideas for us, metaphors ultimately mold the way we think.
Chapter 5: Conservative leaders deploy potent metaphors to push their economic agenda.
Chapter 6: Progressives can reframe the debate by depicting the economy via a moving car metaphor to encourage intervention.
Chapter 7: To advance the progressive view of the Great Recession, pundits and advocates should avoid terms like crisis entirely.
Chapter 8: Employing passive voice in economic narratives keeps us from holding people accountable for harmful misjudgments and errors.
Chapter 9: Today's prevailing political metaphors weaken the progressive cause.
Description
Don’t Buy It (2012) explores the ways language influences our understanding of complex issues. Anat Shenker-Osorio brings her research and expertise to bear on a question that plagues progressives: why do conservatives always win economic debates in the United States, despite the deep inequality and structural injustice epitomized by the financial crash and the Great Recession? These blinks answer this question by analyzing the language employed on either side of the political spectrum.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone who identifies as a political progressive
- Anyone who’s interested in how language affects societies
- Students of English, economics, sociology and politics