Absolutist free-market rhetoric can backfire and persuade readers toward intervention

Evidence

Further, they worried that the extremity of the views associated with the LSE was rhetorically ill advised, distilling market advocacy into an unforgiving absolutism that was more likely to persuade readers of their opponents’ views than their own. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 91

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Neoliberal persuasion works by convincing people they cannot be manipulated — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 392; Political knowledge enables resistance to media agenda setting via counterarguing — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1492; Free-market economists could favor pragmatic state intervention over doctrine. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 101 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal persuasion works by convincing people they cannot be manipulated #complicates (0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 392
• Political knowledge enables resistance to media agenda setting via counterarguing #corroborates (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1492