The rhetoric of economics / Deirdre N. McCloskey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCloskey, Deirdre N.

Contributor:

Project Muse.

Series:

Rhetoric of the human sciences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics.

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 223 pages.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [1998]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

A classic in its field, this pathbreaking book humanized the scientific rhetoric of economics to reveal its literary soul. "McCloskey's target is the pretentious scientism in which economists couch their mutual persuasions--a scientism that lingers on as the near-official language of economics discourse long after its inadequacies have been recognized by philosophers and scientists".--NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS.

Contents:

How to do a rhetorical analysis of economics, and why

The literary character of economic science

Figures of economic speech

The rhetoric of scientism: how John Muth persuades

The problem of audience in historical economics: Robert Fogel as rhetor

The lawyerly rhetoric of Coase's "The nature of the firm"

The unexamined rhetoric of economic quantification

The rhetoric of significance tests

The poverty of economic modernism

From methodology to rhetoric

Anti-anti-rhetoric

Since rhetoric: prospects for a scentific economics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-217) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Online version: McCloskey, Deirdre N. Rhetoric of economics.

ISBN:

9780299158132

0299158136

Publisher Number:

99989770957

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.