The Consequences of Economic Rhetoric

ISBN: 9780521026444 出版年：1989 页码：322 Arjo Klamer Donald N McCloskey Robert M Solow Cambridge University Press

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.