Title Knowledge and persuasion in economics / Donald N. McCloskey.

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Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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Description	xviii, 445 pages ; 24 cm
Contents	pt. I. Exordium. 1. A positivist youth. 2. Kicking the dead horse -- pt. II. Narration. 3. Economics in the human conversation. 4. The rhetoric of this economics -- pt. 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 -- pt. 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 -- pt. V. Refutation. 14. The very idea of epistemology. 15. The tu ̃quoque argument and the claims of rationalism. 16. Armchair philosophy of economics. 17. Philosophy of science without epistemology: the Popperians. 18. Reactionary modernism: the Rosenberg. 19. Methodologists of economics, big M and small. 20. Getting "rhetoric": Mark Blaug and the Eleatic Stranger.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-434) and index.
Subject	Economics.
	Rhetoric.
	Percorsi (Modena, Italy)
	Economics. (OCoLC)fst00902116
	Rhetoric. (OCoLC)fst01096948
	Economie.
	Methodologie.
	Retorica.
	Wirtschaftswissenschaften.
	Methode.
	Rhetorik.
	Wirtschaftsphilosophie.
	Methode. (DE-588)4038971-6
	Rhetorik. (DE-588)4076704-8
	Wirtschaftsphilosophie. (DE-588)4066489-2
	Wirtschaftswissenschaften. (DE-588)4066528-8
	Economics.
Indexed Term	Economics Philosophy
ISBN	0521434750 (hardback)
	9780521434751 (hardback)
	0521436036 (paperback)
	9780521436038 (paperback)

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