
- 248 pages
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The Rhetoric of Economics
About this book
A classic in its field, this pathbreaking book humanized the scientific rhetoric of economics to reveal its literary soul. Economics needs to admit that it, like other sciences, works with metaphors and stories. Its most mathematical and statistical moments are properly dominated by comparison and narration, that is to say, human persuasion. The book was McCloskey's opening move in the development of a "humanomics," and unification of the sciences and the humanities on the field of ordinary business life.
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Yes, you can access The Rhetoric of Economics by Deirdre N. McCloskey in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Business General. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Publisher
University of Wisconsin PressYear
1998Print ISBN
9780299158149, 9780299158101eBook ISBN
9780299158132Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Acknoledgments for the First Edition
- Exordium
- 1 How to do a Rhetorical Analysis of Economics, and Why
- 2 The Literary Character of Economic Science
- 3 Figures of Economic Speech
- 4 The Rhetoric of Scientism: How John Muth Persuades
- 5 The Problem of Audence in Historical Economics: Robert Fogel As Rhetor
- 6 The Lawyerly Rhetoric of Coase's "The Nature of the Firm"
- 7 The Unexamined Rhetoric of Economic Quantification
- 8 The Rhetioric of Significance Tests
- 9 The Poverty of Economic Modernism
- 10 From Methodoloy to Rhetoric
- 11 Anti-Rhetoric
- 12 Since Rhetoric: Prospects for a Scientific Economics
- Bibliography
- Index