Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics

ISBN: 9780521436038 出版年：1994 页码：465 Deirdre N McCloskey Cambridge University Press

Part I. Exordium: 1. A positivist youth 2. Kicking the dead horse Part II. Narration: 3. Economics in the human conversation 4. The rhetoric of economics Part III. Division: 5. The Science word in economics 6. Three ways of reading economics to criticize itself 7. Popper and Lakatos: thin ways of reading economics 8. Thick readings: ethics, economics, sociology and rhetoric Part IV. Proof: 9. The rise of a scientistic style 10. The rhetoric of mathematical formalism: existence theorems 11. General equilibrium and the rhetorical history of formalism 12. Blackboard Marxism 13. Formalists as poets and politicians Part V. Refutation: 14. The very idea of epistemology 15. The tu quoque argument and the claims of rationalism 16. Armchair philosophy of economics: Rosenberg and Hausman 17. Philosophy of science without epistemology: the Popperians 18. The Rosenberg: reactionary modernism 19. Methodologists of economics, big-M and small 20. Getting 'rhetoric': Mark Blaug and the Eleatic Stranger 21. Coats/McPherson/Friedman: anti-meta-post-modernism 22. Splenetic rationalism, Austrian style 23. The economists of ideology: Heilbroner, Rossetti, and Mirowski 24. Rhetoric as morally radical Part VI. Peroration: 25. The economy as a conversation 26. The consequences of rhetoric.