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Rhetoric of Recessions

其他書名	Exploring the Epideictic Dimension of Stimulative Policies in the COVID-19 Pandemic
出版	Whitman College, 2022
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=B4J-0AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋In this project, I explore the ways in which the Federal Reserve and other entities responsible for economic recovery during crises have made invisible significant recovery disparities within low income communities and communities of color by diminishing their role as economic participants. I refer to several documents released by the Federal Open Market Committee and the Congressional Research Service which track the recovery of different sectors of the economy based on various economic measures, and how those measures then inform policy implementation or adjustment. In these documents I observe the use of technical rhetoric and how it constitutes both rational and irrational audiences. I also compare the rhetoric employed by politicians and economists during the current COVID-19 crisis with the 80's inflationary crisis to emphasize the ways in which the economy is rhetorically constructed and how economic audiences are shaped and persuaded to participate in rational recovery behaviors. In these observations I conclude that the ways in which the Fed is shaping audiences who are deserving of recovery and those that should be treated as slack in the economy causes a generic shift of these economic policies from deliberative to epideictic. To support this conclusion, I use Robert Pinker's theories of social welfare in order to best understand how economic "irrationality" has historically been used to obscure and diminish economic disparities within low income communities and communities of color.