Arjo Klamer / Deidre McCloskey / M. Solow (eds.)

The Consequences of Economic Rhetoric

Herausgeber: Klamer, Arjo; Solow, Robert M.; Mccloskey, Donald N.

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Produktbeschreibung

The field of economics proves to be a matter of metaphor and storytelling--its mathematics is metaphoric and its policymaking is narrative. Economists have begun to realize this and to rethink how they speak. This volume is the result of a conference held at Wellesley College, involving both theoretical and applied economists, that explored the consequences of the rhetoric and the conversation of the field of economics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 672g
• ISBN-13: 9780521342865
• ISBN-10: 0521342864
• Artikelnr.: 21851325

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Part I. Economic Rhetoric: Introduction and Comments: 1. Economics
in the human conversation Arjo Klamer and Donald N. McCloskey; 2. Comments
from outside economics Stanley Fish; 3. Comments from inside economics
Robert M. Solow; 4. Rhetoric and ideology Robert L. Heilbroner; Part II.
Economic Rhetoric: Further Arguments: 5. Marxian theory and the rhetorics
of economics Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff; 6. Economic rhetoric: the
social and historical context A. W. Coats; 7. The ideas of economists
Robert W. Clower; 8. Should a scientist abstain from metaphor? Christina
Bicchieri; Part III. Economic Rhetoric Among Economists: 9. 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; 10. On the brittleness of the orange equilibrium E.
Roy Weintraub; 11. The significance of significance: rhetorical aspects of
statistical hypothesis testing in economics Frank T. Denton; 12. The
rhetoric of self-interest: ideology of gender in economic theory Nancy
Folbre and Heidi Hartmann; Part IV. Economic Rhetoric in Politics and
Journalism: 13. The heterogeneity of the economists' discourse:
philosopher, priest, and hired gun Craufurd D. Goodwin; 14. The grammar of
political economy James K. Galbraith; 15. The rhetoric of economics as
viewed by a student of politics Robert O. Keohane; 16. 'Yellow rain' and
'supply-side economics': some rhetoric that failed David Warsh; Part V.
Economic Rhetoric: Its Rhetoric and its Consequences: 17. Negotiating a new
conversation about economics Arjo Klamer; 18. The consequences of rhetoric
Donald N. McCloskey; Appendix; Index.