The rhetoric of economics/ Deirdre N. McCloskey

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCloskey, Deirdre N., Author.

Series:

Rhetoric of the human sciences The rhetoric of economics

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] University of Wisconsin Press 1998

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9786612594656

9781282594654

1282594656

9780299158132

0299158136