Lecture 10: Rhetoric and Behavioral Economics
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https://doi.org/10.22230/src.2021v12n1a381Keywords:
Rhetoric; Behavioural economics; Persuasion; Nudging / Rhétorique; Économie comportementale; Persuasion; Incitation douceAbstract
Although behavioural economists are not rhetoricians, and rhetoricians are not behavioural economists, they are both interested in persuasion, even as they come at it from different points of view. Lecture 10 argues that behavioural economics examines our choice-making practices and considers how a range of influences works in concert with conventional economic interests to shape the procedures by which we come to decisions. These influences use rhetoric to nudge people to adopt particular beliefs, engage in specific behaviour, and endorse ideas believed to be in the public interest.
Les économistes comportementaux ne sont pas rhétoriciens, et les rhétoriciens ne sont pas économistes comportementaux, mais ils s’intéressent tous les deux à la persuasion, même si leurs points de vue diffèrent. Le cours 10 soutient que l’économie comportementale examine notre manière de faire des choix et il considère comment un éventail d’influences, de concert avec des intérêts économiques conventionnels, façonne les procédures par lesquelles on prend des décisions. Ces influences utilisent la rhétorique afin d’inciter les gens à adopter des croyances particulières, adopter des comportements spécifiques, et appuyer des idées censées être dans l’intérêt public.
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