Abstract
Van Bavel and Gaskell’s (2004) analysis of laypeople’s and economics experts’ discourse in Chile is complemented by a look at expert-talk-based colonization of the social realities of Russia. It is demonstrated that resistance by laypeople to the acceptance of expert discourses is a buffering mechanism in a society to balance the import of deductively derived economic models from other countries. A dialogical approach is suggested for making sense of economic processes in any society.
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