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Changing the subject slightly, what Vincent said about texts and their
influences on behaviour reminded me of something that was on Radio 4 over
the weekend. I was half listening to one of these financial programmes (I
think it might have been Money Box Live), and some academic was interviewed
who had measured 'r-words' ie words to do with recession and economic doom
and gloom stories in the media, and then looked at economic indicators from
central banks. The two go up and down in tandem, in other words, 'r-words'
don't precipitate depression but simply mirror it. She was sceptical
concerning the idea that we 'talk ourselves into' economic trouble, eg. by
scare stories. She was also rather doubtful that we can talk ourselves out
of it.
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