Ways of Worldmaking

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.

The Consequences of Economic Rhetoric

In this thoroughly engaging book Deirdre McCloskey puts the "dismal science" under the microscope. She offers advice to young economists, offering models from the old; and she lambastes the middle-aged who have allowed economics to become, as she puts it with characteristic verve, "a boys' game in a sandbox." McCloskey deploys her wit and style to serious purpose: to bring economics back to science.Anyone can learn about the field of economics from "How to Be Human." She can learn how economics works as a discipline and as a piece of sociology, who the heroes are and the villains, how a career in economics relates to matters of ethics and epistemology. She can learn what it is like to be a new woman in a boys' subject, a subject that avoids at all costs the word "love."During the 1990s Deirdre McCloskey established herself as the main internal critic of the economic mainstream. Her quarterly columns in the "Eastern Economic Journal, " many of which are collected here, have become a handbook for reform. Trained in economics herself, she knows the normal science of the field from the inside: she has done it as a distinguished economic historian; and has watched it work from the faculties of Chicago (for twelve years) and Iowa (for nineteen), and now at the University of Illinois at Chicago.Her criticism from the inside is that the two methods on which economics has depended since the 1940s--existence-theorem mathematics and significance-testing statistics--are nonsense. They have, she claims, nothing to do with economic science, and have massively diverted economists from finding out how the economy works.McCloskey's book is written for anyone interested in economics, whether trained in it or not--anyone who cares about the economy but is not taken in by the boys' game.Deirdre McCloskey is University Professor of the Human Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago.

How to be Human*: *Though an Economist

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