The Consequences of Economic Rhetoric经济学话语的后果

出版时间：2006-1  作者：Klamer, Arjo; McCloskey, Deidre; Solow, Robert M.  页数：305  

内容概要

The field of economics proves to be a matter of metaphor and storytelling--its mathematics is metaphoric and its policymaking is narrative. Economists have begun to realize this and to rethink how they speak. This volume is the result of a conference held at Wellesley College, involving both theoretical and applied economists, that explored the consequences of the rhetoric and the conversation of the field of economics.     The field of economics proves to be a matter of metaphor and storytelling - its mathematics is metaphoric and its policy-making is narrative. Economists have begun to realize this and to rethink how they speak.

书籍目录

PrefacePART ⅠECONOMIC RHETORIC: INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTS  1  Economics in the human conversation  2  Comments from outside economics  3  Comments from inside economics  4  Rhetoric and ideologyPART Ⅱ  ECONOMIC RHETORIC: FURTHER ARGUMENTS  5  Marxian theory and the rhetorics of economics  6  Economic rhetoric: The social and historical context  7  The ideas of economists  8  Should a scientist abstain from metaphor?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  10  On the brittleness of the orange equilibrium  11  The significance of significance: Rhetorical aspects of statistical hypothesis testing in economics  12  The rhetoric of self-interest: Ideology of gender in economic theoryPART Ⅳ   ECONOMIC RHETORIC IN POLITICS AND JOURNALISM  13  The heterogeneity of the economists' discourse: Philosopher, priest, and hired gun  14  The grammar of political economy  15  The rhetoric of economics as viewed by a student of politics  16  "Yellow rain" and "supply-side economics": Some rhetoric that failedPART Ⅴ  ECONOMIC RHETORIC: ITS RHETORIC AND ITS CONSEQUENCES  17  Negotiating a new conversation about economics  18  The consequences of rhetoricAppendix: Other contributors and participantsIndex