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Persuasion is now 30 per cent of US GDP

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  • Gerry Antioch

    (Treasury, Government of Australia)

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Persuasion is the common thread in almost all voluntary transactions. With persuasion’s footprint in the modern economy substantial and growing, this paper briefly scans the recent literature and suggests the McCloskey-Klamer estimate of the persuasion content of GDP could now be higher.

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  • Gerry Antioch, 2013. "Persuasion is now 30 per cent of US GDP," Economic Roundup, The Treasury, Australian Government, issue 1, pages 1-10, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:tsy:journl:journl_tsy_er_2013_1_1
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    1. Stergios Skaperdas & Samarth Vaidya, 2012. "Persuasion as a contest," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 51(2), pages 465-486, October.
    2. Sendhil Mullainathan & Andrei Shleifer, 2005. "Persuasion in Finance," NBER Working Papers 11838, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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    1. Emaad Manzoor & George H. Chen & Dokyun Lee & Michael D. Smith, 2020. "Influence via Ethos: On the Persuasive Power of Reputation in Deliberation Online," Papers 2006.00707, arXiv.org.
    2. Semyon Malamud & Andreas Schrimpf, 2021. "Persuasion by Dimension Reduction," Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper Series 21-69, Swiss Finance Institute.
    3. Hamelin, Nicolas & Thaichon, Park & Abraham, Christopher & Driver, Nicholas & Lipscombe, Joe & Pillai, Jayarethanam, 2020. "Storytelling, the scale of persuasion and retention: A neuromarketing approach," Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Elsevier, vol. 55(C).

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    Keywords

    Economic persuasion;

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    • A10 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - General
    • E01 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General - - - Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth; Environmental Accounts

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