Pirateri og propaganda

Propaganda in Soviet Russia

Two years ago the writer found plenty of evidence. Red flags, censored newspapers, directed excursions, indoctrinated schools, motivated plays, didactic pictures, and continuous radio messages preach communism. Appeals to the need for security and class loyalty, dogmatic assertion of Marxian philosophy, the example of leaders, and calls to participation are used as incentives to action. The res...

Propaganda and credulity

Article history: Received 13 April 2016 Available online 28 December 2016 JEL classification: D83

Optimal Policy in OG Models

In the present paper general stationary overlapping generations economies with many commodities in every period and many different consumers in every generation are considered. A government maximizes a utilitarian social welfare function, which is the sum of weighted averages of utilities for generations, through fiscal policy, i.e., monetary transfers and taxes. Situations both with and withou...

Soviet Propaganda Posters

Propaganda: Its Psychological Aspect

The essence of the art of propaganda is to influence people to believe and do things which they would not believe or do without the effect of propaganda. It is therefore a form of suggestion? suggestion, in its narrow sense, meaning a tendency for the human 'find to accept something communicated to it as a fact in the absence of any logical grounds for its acceptance.