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The Consequences of economic rhetoric / edited by Arjo Klamer, Donald N. McCloskey, Robert M. Solow.
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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.
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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.
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ISBN
0521342864
9780521342865
Tech. report no.
88015095
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88015095
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19742243
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ZBWT00185369
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