Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics

Name: Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics
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ISBN: 9780521436038

ISBN-10: 0521436036

ISBN-13: 9780521436038

Edition: 1994

Authors: Donald N. McCloskey, Deirdre N. McCloskey

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Book details

List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/5/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.06" wide x 8.98" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English




Exordium



A positivist youth



Kicking the dead horse



Narration



Economics in the human conversation



The rhetoric of economics



Division



The Science word in economics



Three ways of reading economics to criticize itself



Popper and Lakatos: thin ways of reading economics



Thick readings: ethics, economics, sociology and rhetoric



Proof



The rise of a scientistic style



The rhetoric of mathematical formalism: existence theorems



General equilibrium and the rhetorical history of formalism



Blackboard Marxism



Formalists as poets and politicians



Refutation



The very idea of epistemology



The tu quoque argument and the claims of rationalism



Armchair philosophy of economics: Rosenberg and Hausman



Philosophy of science without epistemology: the Popperians



The Rosenberg: reactionary modernism



Methodologists of economics, big-M and small



Getting 'rhetoric': Mark Blaug and the Eleatic Stranger



Coats/McPherson/Friedman: anti-meta-post-modernism



Splenetic rationalism, Austrian style



The economists of ideology: Heilbroner, Rossetti, and Mirowski



Rhetoric as morally radical



Peroration



The economy as a conversation



The consequences of rhetoric