Bread and bullets
标准经济学忽略了叙事在决策中的作用。本文描述了叙事如何影响理解环境、集中注意力、预测事件、激励行动、定义社会角色和权力关系等，并以布尔什维克叙事在20世纪俄苏历史中的关键作用为例进行对比说明。
Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities; defining power relations; and establishing and conveying social norms. This paper describes the role narratives play in decision making, as it also juxtaposes this description against the backdrop of the Bolshevik-spawned narrative that played a critical role in the history of Russia and the Soviet Union in the 20th Century.