{"id":37,"date":"2013-03-06T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bibliowonk.com\/wp\/?p=37"},"modified":"2014-06-25T14:51:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T18:51:03","slug":"incestuous-amplification-paul-krugman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Incestuous Amplification (Paul Krugman)"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Paul_Krugman_2_BBF_2010_Shankbone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/56\/Paul_Krugman_2_BBF_2010_Shankbone.jpg\/300px-Paul_Krugman_2_BBF_2010_Shankbone.jpg\" alt=\"English: Paul Krugman at the 2010 Brooklyn Boo...\" width=\"144\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Terminologist and Economist: Paul<br \/>\nKrugman at the 2010 Brooklyn Book<br \/>\nFestival. (Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Paul_Krugman_2_BBF_2010_Shankbone.jpg\">Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument>  <w:View>Normal<\/w:View>  <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>  <w:PunctuationKerning\/>  <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas\/>  <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false<\/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>  <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false<\/w:IgnoreMixedContent>  <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false<\/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>  <w:Compatibility>   <w:BreakWrappedTables\/>   <w:SnapToGridInCell\/>   <w:WrapTextWithPunct\/>   <w:UseAsianBreakRules\/>   <w:DontGrowAutofit\/>  <\/w:Compatibility>  <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4<\/w:BrowserLevel> <\/w:WordDocument><\/xml><![endif]--><\/p>\n<div>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/29\/incestuous-amplification-economics-edition\/\">Incestuous Amplification<\/a>.&#8221; What a wonderful phrase, which Paul Krugman describes as &#8220;a term for how highly dubious ideas become not just accepted, but viewed as certainties. \u201cIncestuous amplification\u201d happen when a closed group of people repeat the same things to each other \u2013 and when accepting the group\u2019s preconceptions itself becomes a necessary ticket to being in the in-group.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Krugman is talking about his fellow economists, but this concept also works with other small or closed groups, and that includes scholars in a given discipline.<\/div>\n<div><a title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_f.png?x-id=143a7787-9e2c-45b7-937f-532fdb0a7aba\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terminologist and Economist: Paul Krugman at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) &#8220;Incestuous Amplification.&#8221; What a wonderful phrase, which Paul Krugman describes as &#8220;a term for how highly dubious ideas become not just accepted, but viewed as certainties. \u201cIncestuous amplification\u201d happen when a closed group of people repeat the same things to each&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/?p=37\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Incestuous Amplification (Paul Krugman)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[85,371,95,380,157,181,409],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotations","tag-group-polarization","tag-groupthink","tag-incestuous-amplification","tag-language","tag-paul-krugman","tag-psychology","tag-quotations","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}