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The Rhetoric of Economics

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Author(s): Deirdre McCloskey
Edition: 2
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Year: 1998

Language: English
Pages: 246
City: Madison, Wisoncsin; London, England

Contents
......Page 7
Preface to the Second Edition
......Page 11
Acknoledgments for the First Edition
......Page 15
Exordium
......Page 19
1 How to do a Rhetorical Analysis of Economics, and Why......Page 23
2 The Literary Character of Economic Science
......Page 40
3 Figures of Economic Speech
......Page 55
4 The Rhetoric of Scientism: How John Muth Persuades
......Page 72
5 The Problem of Audence in Historical Economics: Robert Fogel As Rhetor
......Page 94
6 The Lawyerly Rhetoric of Coase's "The Nature of the Firm"......Page 107
7 The Unexamined Rhetoric of Economic Quantification
......Page 120
8 The Rhetioric of Significance Tests......Page 132
9 The Poverty of Economic Modernism
......Page 159
10 From Methodoloy to Rhetoric
......Page 176
11 Anti-Rhetoric
......Page 188
12 Since Rhetoric: Prospects for a Scientific Economics......Page 207
Bibliography
......Page 214
Index
......Page 238