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DESCRIPTION:In the marketplace of ideas\, advocates attempt to shift norms 
 and behaviors through their rhetoric\, sometimes precipitating tremendous 
 change (e.g. abolitionism\, women's suffrage). In the context of factory f
 arming\, we conduct a lab experiment to understand take-up of messages in 
 the marketplace of ideas and those messages' induced moral costs. Subjects
  mostly avoid messages about the harms to animals in factory farms and the
 re is some selective search for countervailing information. We find that t
 he factory-farm message\, when viewed\, imposes fixed costs on eating meat
 \, consistent with deontological morals\, and quantity costs on eating mea
 t\, consistent with utilitarian morals\, significantly reducing meat consu
 mption. We then consider a policymaker with a limited budget who wishes to
  reduce harmful commodity consumption. We conduct structural counterfactua
 l analysis to solve for the optimal policy. We find that a policymaker who
  neglects the marketplace of ideas mismanages policy\, leaving feasible ha
 rm mitigation on the table. In contrast\, the policymaker who mistakenly p
 resumes all consumers have utilitarian-like quantity moral costs makes nea
 r-zero policy error\, making this standard assumption in the discipline an
  appropriate approximation.\n\n \n\nJoshua Tasoff is an Associate Professo
 r of Economics at Claremont Graduate University. He conducts research in b
 ehavioral economics and animal-welfare economics. His research has appeare
 d in outlets such as Nature Food\, Food Policy\, Journal of the European E
 conomic Association\, Management Science\, and American Economic Journal: 
 Microeconomics. He has a SB from MIT and a PhD from UC Berkeley\, both in 
 economics.
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SUMMARY:"Moral Preferences and the Marketplace of Ideas" with Josh Tasoff\,
  PhD
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 arketplace-of-ideas-with-josh-tasoff-phd
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