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The rhetoric of economics
- Title
- The rhetoric of economics / Deirdre N. McCloskey.
- Author
- McCloskey, Deirdre N.
- Publication
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [1998], ©1998.
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- Description
- xxi, 223 pages; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Rhetoric of the human sciences
- Uniform Title
- Rhetoric of the human sciences.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-217) and index.
- Contents
- 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 Audience in Historical Economics: Robert Fogel as Rhetor -- 6. The Lawerly Rhetoric of Coase's "The Nature of the Firm" -- 7. The Unexamined Rhetoric of Economic Quantification -- 8. The Rhetoric of Significance Tests -- 9. The Poverty of Economic Modernism -- 10. From Methodology to Rhetoric -- 11. Anti-Anti-Rhetoric -- 12. Since Rhetoric: Prospects for a Scientific Economics.
- ISBN
- 0299158101 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0299158144 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 97037740
- OCLC
- ocm37519121
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries