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Narratives

False Claims and Propaganda: Why Uber’s Narratives Are Wrong But Successful

Hubert Horan
Uber’s narratives reduce everything to emotive battles between good and evil. If Uber’s success is inevitable, and resistance is futile, no one needs to waste...

Can Narratives Shape Society?

Prateek Raj
Narratives that alter beliefs and change norms or guiding principles may indeed have real and lasting effects.  In the 2017 American Economic Association Presidential Address,...

The Role of Narratives in Economics

Prateek Raj
Narratives are vectors of ideas. Nobel laureate Robert Shiller suggests that in the age of social information networks, economists need to rethink how and...

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