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Evaporative Economics: A Truth-Telling Metaphor to Displace the Trickle-Down Lie That Just Won't Die
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Download full textWright-Maley, Cory; Hall, Delandrea; Finley, Shakealia Y. – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2023
Trickle-down economics is a fallacious metaphor that hurts working people and the civic commons. In this paper, we discuss the role and impact metaphors have in economics education. We explore the stickiness of "truthy" but ultimately false metaphors and offer economics educators alternative metaphors to displace this problematic…
Descriptors: Ethics, Figurative Language, Economics Education, Language Usage
