Rhetoric of Economics

By: Deirdre N. McCloskey

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Paperback | 9 July 2004 | Edition Number 2

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"McCloskey must be credited with the singular achievement of introducing the major philosophers of the twentieth century into a discussion of the methodology of economics." "Times Literary Supplement"

"McCloskey takes aim at the 'dismal science's' scientific pretensions in this pathfinding, elegantly written, and intellectually razor-sharp book." "Washington Post"

"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"

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"The most thoughtful book on economics in years." "Philadelphia Enquirer"

"McCloskey must be credited with the singular achievement of introducing the major philosophers of the twentieth century into a discussion of the methodology of economics."--"Times Literary Supplement"

"McCloskey takes aim at the 'dismal science's' scientific pretensions in this pathfinding, elegantly written, and intellectually razor-sharp book."--"Washington Post"

"The most thoughtful book on economics in years."--"Philadelphia Enquirer"

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Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments for the First Edition
Exordium
How to do a Rhetorical Analysis of Economics, and Why	p. 3
The Literary Character of Economic Science	p. 20
Figures of Economic Speech	p. 35
The Rhetoric of Scientism: How John Muth Persuades	p. 52
The Problem of Audience in Historical Economics: Robert Fogel as Rhetor	p. 74
The Lawerly Rhetoric of Coase's "The Nature of the Firm"	p. 87
The Unexamined Rhetoric of Economic Quantification	p. 100
The Rhetoric of Significance Tests	p. 112
The Poverty of Economic Modernism	p. 139
From Methodology to Rhetoric	p. 156
Anti-Anti-Rhetoric	p. 168
Since Rhetoric: Prospects for a Scientific Economics	p. 187
Bibliography	p. 195
Index	p. 219
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