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Doublethink

In: GLOBAL ECONOMIC TURMOIL AND THE PUBLIC GOOD

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  • Steven Rosefielde
  • Daniel Quinn Mills

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Doublethinking (now sometimes called “motivated blindness”) makes pipe dream policy-making nearly impervious to rational critique and empirical disconfirmation, providing yet another barrier to overcoming secular stagnation and averting crises. People infected with doublethink often fall victim to pipe dreams even if they distain them. Worse still savvy professionals who appreciate the irony of the situation, nonetheless succumb to a subtler form of doublethinking by insisting that acting on false premises does not matter because everything will turn out for the best…

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  • Steven Rosefielde & Daniel Quinn Mills, 2015. "Doublethink," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: GLOBAL ECONOMIC TURMOIL AND THE PUBLIC GOOD, chapter 13, pages 145-148, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789814590518_0013
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