The Rhetoric of Economics (Rhetoric of the Human Sciences)

published	1998 by University of Wisconsin Press
binding	Paperback
isbn	0299158144 (isbn13: 9780299158149)
pages	248
description	Deirdre N. McCloskey teaches economics and history at the University of Iowa and is the Tinbergen Distinguished Professor at Erasmus University of Rot...more [close] Deirdre N. McCloskey teaches economics and history at the University of Iowa and is the Tinbergen Distinguished Professor at Erasmus University of Rotterdam. Author of a dozen books in economics and history, she was formerly known as Donald. Her experience in changing gender is reflected in the new edition, but the message remains the same: economics needs to get serious about its rhetoric, and back to science. Completely revised Three new chapters, two new bibliographies *Publishing history: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985 [close]
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08/25/07

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Economic texts as examples of literature - continuing the post-autistic debate. How economic texts persuade not though their science, but through their very language.

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