The Consequences of Economic Rhetoric
Contributors: Arjo Klamer (Editor); Donald N. McCloskey (Editor); Robert M. Solow (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780521026444
Subjects: Economic theory & philosophy; Economics - General; Business / Economics / Finance; Business & Economics; Business/Economics; Business & Economics / Economic History; Business & Economics / Economics / General; Economics--Congresses; Economic History
First sentence: "As civilized human beings," wrote Michael Oakeshott in 1933, "we are the inheritors, neither of an inquiry about ourselves and the world, nor of an accumulating body of information, but of a conversation begun in the primeval forest and extended and made more articulate in the course of centuries."