The rhetoric of economics
By: Deirdre N. McCloskey.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Rhetoric of the human sciences
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Madison, Wis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Economics.; Rhetoric.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-217) and index.