Moral suasion is an appeal to morality, in order to influence or change behavior. A famous example is the attempt by William Lloyd Garrison and his American Anti-Slavery Society to end slavery in the United States by using moral suasion.[1] In economics, moral suasion is more specifically defined as "the attempt to coerce private economic activity via governmental exhortation in directions not already defined or dictated by existing statute law."[2] The "moral" aspect comes from the pressure for "moral responsibility" to operate in a way that is consistent with furthering the good of the economy.[3] Moral suasion in this narrower sense is also sometimes known as jawboning.[4] In rhetoric, moral suasion is closely aligned with Aristotle's concept of pathos, which is one of the three modes of persuasion and describes an appeal to the moral principles of the audience.[5]
There are two types of moral suasion:
"Pure" moral suasion is an appeal for altruistic behaviour[2] and is rarely used in economic policy.
"Impure" moral suasion, which is the usual meaning of "moral suasion" in economics, is backed by explicit or implicit threats by authorities to provide incentives to comply with the authorities' wishes.[2]
^Tunde Adeleke, "Afro-Americans and moral suasion: the debate in the 1830s," The Journal of Negro History, 1998: 127–142.
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^Adam Hayes, What does moral suasion mean, Investopedia. Accessed June 1, 2010.
^Paul R. Verkuil, "Jawboning administrative agencies: Ex Parte Contracts by the White House," Columbia Law Review, 1980: 943–989.
^"Ethos, Pathos, Logos: The Three Modes of Persuasion". CRM.org. 2020-06-02. Retrieved 2023-02-12.
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