Économie et Finance durant la crise financière mondiale : représentations sociales, métaphores et figures rhétoriques dans le discours des médias de l'automne 2008 au printemps 2010

Rosa, Annamaria Silvana de; Bocci, Elena; Bulgarella, C.

doi:10.3917/cips.087.0543

“…(4) Its value existed only as a potential, and the crisis destroyed that potential. People who picked answer 1 (it was an illusion) or 3 (the money was diverted) endorse the Econ101 view (in the main part of the questionnaire) less than those who believe that the money was truly lost, either because shares fell (2) or because the opportunity to transform the potential value into real value was lost (4) (see [ 57 ] who discusses the difference laypeople see between the financial "formal economy" and the real economy). The opposite pattern is observed regarding the endorsement of the Government Malfunction and the Bad Invisible Hand views, and this is even more clearly visible regarding endorsement of the Conspirational account.…”

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confidence: 99%

The conspiratorial style in lay economic thinking

Leiser

¹

,

Duani

²

,

Wagner‐Egger

³

2017

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This study investigates patterns of lay perception of economics, and in particular the place of conspiratorial thinking regarding the economic domain. We devised four types of accounts in the economic domain, over a range of questions regarding different aspects of the economy: the classical neo-liberal economic view (which we labeled Econ101), and the Conspiracy view (the destructive outcomes of economy are due to small and powerful groups who are manipulating the markets), to which we added the Government malfunction view (failures in the economy are due to the authorities), and the Bad Invisible Hand view (the invisible hand may go wrong, and the equilibrium reached by its doings may be undesirable). The last two views are the ones most strongly endorsed by our respondents, in the US, Israel and Switzerland. The pattern of inter-correlations between the four accounts, and that between each and the psycho-social variables we examined, exhibits two clusters, Econ101 vs. the other three views of economy. This corresponds to a general opposition between people who trust the neoliberal economic system, and those opposed to it. What sets economic conspiratorial thinking apart are its links with other conspirational beliefs and with paranormal beliefs.

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“…(4) Its value existed only as a potential, and the crisis destroyed that potential. People who picked answer 1 (it was an illusion) or 3 (the money was diverted) endorse the Econ101 view (in the main part of the questionnaire) less than those who believe that the money was truly lost, either because shares fell (2) or because the opportunity to transform the potential value into real value was lost (4) (see [57] who discusses the difference laypeople see between the financial "formal economy" and the real economy). The opposite pattern is observed regarding the endorsement of the Government Malfunction and the Bad Invisible Hand views, and this is even more clearly visible regarding endorsement of the Conspirational account.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Conspiratorial Style in Lay Economic Thinking

Leiser¹,

Duani

²

,

Wagner‐Egger

³

2016

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This study investigates patterns of lay perception of economics, and in particular the place of conspiratorial thinking regarding the economic domain. We devised four types of accounts in the economic domain, over a range of questions regarding different aspects of the economy: the classical neo-liberal economic view (which we labeled Econ101), and the Conspiracy view (the destructive outcomes of economy are due to small and powerful groups who are manipulating the markets), to which we added the Government malfunction view (failures in the economy are due to the authorities), and the Bad Invisible Hand view (the invisible hand may go wrong, and the equilibrium reached by its doings may be undesirable). The last two views are the ones most strongly endorsed by our respondents, in the US, Israel and Switzerland. The pattern of inter-correlations between the four accounts, and that between each and the psycho-social variables we examined, exhibits two clusters, Econ101 vs. the other three views of economy. This corresponds to a general opposition between people who trust the neoliberal economic system, and those opposed to it. What sets economic conspiratorial thinking apart are its links with other conspirational beliefs and with paranormal beliefs.

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“…In further studies, it could be interesting to cross analyses of people's verbal productions with media discourse, as in De Rosa et al (2010); this could be another way of exploring this topic more deeply. As the social representation is a mediator of economic judgments and decisions, the psychological and behavioral implications need to be explored in more depth.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

How is the economic crisis socially assessed?

Roland‐Lévy

¹

,

Kmiec

²

,

Lemoine

³

2016

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Based on the Social Representation Theory, the purpose of this article is to explore how lay-people consider both the economic crisis and risk, and to link these social representations to behavior. The article offers an original approach with the articulation of two studies about the social construction of risk and crises. It also contributes to the development of research methods for studying the connections between representations and practical implications. Based on this, the impact of the social representation of the crisis on the perceived ability to act is approached. The first study focuses on free-association tasks, with two distinct target terms: 'risk' and 'crisis'. The structural approach, with a prototypical analysis, allowed the identification of two different representations: (1) for risk, 'danger' is the central element;(2) for crisis, 'economy' and 'money' constitute the main components of the representation. The second study investigates the links between the two previously detected structures and their relations with the perceived ability to act in a financial crisis context. Some aspects of social knowledge were found to have an impact on perceived ability to act.

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Économie et Finance durant la crise financière mondiale : représentations sociales, métaphores et figures rhétoriques dans le discours des médias de l'automne 2008 au printemps 2010

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The conspiratorial style in lay economic thinking

The conspiratorial style in lay economic thinking

The Conspiratorial Style in Lay Economic Thinking

How is the economic crisis socially assessed?

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