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- catalog abstract "A classic in its field, this pathbreaking book humanized the scientific rhetoric of economics to reveal its literary soul. In this completely revised second edition, Deirdre N. McCloskey demonstrates how economic discourse employs metaphor, authority, symmetry, and other rhetorical means of persuasion. The Rhetoric of Economics shows economists to be human persuaders, poets of the marketplace, even in their most technical and mathematical moods.".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog contributor b10688961.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description "A classic in its field, this pathbreaking book humanized the scientific rhetoric of economics to reveal its literary soul. In this completely revised second edition, Deirdre N. McCloskey demonstrates how economic discourse employs metaphor, authority, symmetry, and other rhetorical means of persuasion. The Rhetoric of Economics shows economists to be human persuaders, poets of the marketplace, even in their most technical and mathematical moods.".
- catalog description "How to do a rhetorical analysis of economics, and why -- The literary character of economic science -- Figures of economic speech -- The rhetoric of scientism: how John Muth persuades -- The problem of audience in historical economics: Robert Fogel as rhetor -- The lawyerly rhetoric of Coase's "The nature of the firm" -- The unexamined rhetoric of economic quantification -- The rhetoric of significance tests -- The poverty of economic modernism -- From methodology to rhetoric -- Anti-anti-rhetoric -- Since rhetoric: prospects for a scentific economics.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-217) and index.".
- catalog extent "xxi, 223 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Rhetoric of economics.".
- catalog identifier "0299158101 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0299158144 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Rhetoric of economics.".
- catalog isPartOf "Rhetoric of the human sciences".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press,".
- catalog relation "Rhetoric of economics.".
- catalog subject "330 21".
- catalog subject "Economics.".
- catalog subject "HB71 .M38 1998".
- catalog subject "Rhetoric.".
- catalog tableOfContents "How to do a rhetorical analysis of economics, and why -- The literary character of economic science -- Figures of economic speech -- The rhetoric of scientism: how John Muth persuades -- The problem of audience in historical economics: Robert Fogel as rhetor -- The lawyerly rhetoric of Coase's "The nature of the firm" -- The unexamined rhetoric of economic quantification -- The rhetoric of significance tests -- The poverty of economic modernism -- From methodology to rhetoric -- Anti-anti-rhetoric -- Since rhetoric: prospects for a scentific economics.".
- catalog title "The rhetoric of economics / Deirdre N. McCloskey.".
- catalog type "text".