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If You’re So Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise

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Author(s): Donald (Deirdre) N. McCloskey
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Year: 1990

Language: English
Pages: 191
City: Chicago and London

Contents (v)......Page 6
Preface (vii)......Page 8
Introduction (1)......Page 11
1. Telling Stories Economically (10)......Page 20
2. Plot and Genre in Economics (24)......Page 34
3. The Politics of Stories in Historical Economics (40)......Page 50
4. Economic Rhetoric in Aid of the Story Line (56)......Page 66
5. The Scholar's Story (70)......Page 80
6. Metaphor Against the Story: Chaos and Counterfactuals (83)......Page 93
7. The Poetics and Economics of Magic (97)......Page 107
8. The American Question: If You're So Smart Why Ain't You Rich? (111)......Page 121
9. The Limits of Criticism (123)......Page 133
10. Keeping the Company of Economists (135)......Page 145
11. The Common Weal and Economic Stories (150)......Page 160
Epigraph (163)......Page 173
Works Cited (165)......Page 174
Index (177)......Page 186