{"id":24845,"date":"2014-11-12T12:01:10","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T18:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/?p=24845"},"modified":"2014-11-23T22:16:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T04:16:11","slug":"mooney-framed-as-a-free-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/2014\/mooney-framed-as-a-free-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Mooney: ‘framed as a free-market’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reading twitter, I clicked over to Chris Mooney post<\/a>. Chris often writes things that just make me say “huh”. In particular, I have to wonder whether Chris has ever spoken or listened to anyone whose views differ from his. Let me highlight ‘huh’ inducing statement du jour<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Granted, the new study has its weaknesses. For instance, we probably shouldn’t assume based on this paper that running out and singing the praises of clean energy and green tech, framed<\/strong> as a free-market solution<\/font> would actually work to depolarize the climate issue. .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Does the “framed as a free-market” solution strike you as ‘interesting’? Give you pause? It did me. My reaction was Well.. duh<\/strong>.
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\nOf course<\/em> one shouldn’t assume that attempts to frame<\/I> solutions as “free-market” makes<\/I> will work to depolarize climate science. It’s one thing to present randomly chosen people with a brief article characterizing these solutions as “free market” and then see how those people respond to questions about climate change.<\/p>\n

It’s another thing to expect people in the real world to continue to believe<\/i> these solutions are<\/I> free market. That fact is that “framing” a solution as “free-market” does not make<\/I> it a “free market” solution. Also, in the real world, “framing” solutions as ‘free market’ often does not trick tax-payers, consumers or investors into believing<\/I> those solutions are “free market”– at least not in the long term where these people might do things like read newspapers, blogs, forums and so on. <\/p>\n

In reality: many people are aware these ‘solutions’ are heavily subsidized<\/i>: heavily subsidized enterprises are not<\/i> “free market”. <\/p>\n

So, no, Chris, one should not assume “framing” solutions that are not<\/I> “free-market” as “free market” will depolarize the climate issue. In fact, the inevitable segue from attempts to “frame” these solutions as “free market” to attempts to promote tax subsidizes<\/I> for these “free market” solution are likely to result in some listeners concluding a “marketing type” or “professional communicator” just tried to “pull the wool over their eyes”. The listeners will get angry. Result? More polarization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading twitter, I clicked over to Chris Mooney post. Chris often writes things that just make me say “huh”. In particular, I have to wonder whether Chris has ever spoken or listened to anyone whose views differ from his. Let me highlight ‘huh’ inducing statement du jour: Granted, the new study has its weaknesses. For … Continue reading Mooney: ‘framed as a free-market’?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-comparisons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}