Volume III · Managed Decline
The Closed-Door Penalty
Research preview · manuscript under review
Proposes a framework for how dehumanizing rhetoric can reduce cooperation and access to talent, trade, and institutional relationships.
Research programme: Siddhartha Harsh Wardhan · Preview updated
The research question
How could exclusionary rhetoric affect cooperation, talent and institutional access?
How it connects to Volume III
Proposes a way to connect public language with the practical relationships on which economic capacity depends.
Evidence and limits
Separate rhetoric from other causes of changing trade, mobility or cooperation. Test the proposed mechanism across cases without assigning collective intent to a population.
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