... at: ravsar@colum.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Policy Justification Economic discourse Welfare economics Economics Ideographs Value judgments This note concerns itself with the scholarly economic discourse that has gained prominence after McCloskey’s (1983) extensive...

... Economic discourse Social insurance What happens if we substitute the word “death tax” for “estate tax?” “Estate tax” sounds worthy and the right thing for a democracy, but “death tax” sounds distasteful and unfair (Ball, 2014). This is precisely the reaction Frank Luntz, the architect...