The Consequences of economic rhetoric / edited by Arjo Klamer, Donald N. McCloskey, Robert M. Solow.

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English
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.
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x, 305 pages ; 24 cm

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    The papers in this volume are drawn from a recent conference at Wellesley College for both theoretical and applied economists, which explored the consequences of rhetoric and conversation within the field of economics.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Economics in the human conversation / Arjo Klamer and Donald N. McCloskey
    • Comments from outside economics / Stanley Fish
    • Comments from inside economics / Robert M. Solow
    • Rhetoric and ideology / Robert L. Heilbroner
    • Marxian theory and the rhetorics of economics / Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff
    • Economic rhetoric : the social and historical context / A.W. Coats
    • The ideas of economists / Robert W. Clower
    • Should a scientist abstain from metaphor? / Cristina Bicchieri
    • Shall I compare thee to a Minkowski-Ricardo-Leontief-Metzler matrix of the Mosak-Hicks type? : or, rhetoric, mathematics, and the nature of neoclassical economic theory / Philip Mirowski
    • On the brittleness of the orange equilibrium / E. Roy Weintraub.
    • The significance of significance : rhetorical aspects of statistical hypothesis testing in economics / Frank T. Denton
    • The rhetoric of self-interest : ideology of gender in economic theory / Nancy Folbre and Heidi Hartmann
    • The heterogeneity of the economists' discourse : philosopher, priest, and hired gun / Craufurd D. Goodwin
    • The grammar of political economy / James K. Galbraith
    • The rhetoric of economics as viewed by a student of politics / Robert O. Keohane
    • "Yellow rain" and "supply-side economics" : some rhetoric that failed / David Warsh
    • Negotiating a new conversation about economics / Arjo Klamer
    • The consequences of rhetoric / Donald N. McCloskey.
    ISBN
    • 0521342864
    • 9780521342865
    Tech. report no.
    88015095
    LCCN
    88015095
    OCLC
    19742243
    Other standard number
    • ZBWT00185369
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