The Consequences of Economic Rhetoric Book

Preface;

Part I. Economic Rhetoric: Introduction and Comments:

1. Economics in the human conversation Arjo Klamer and Donald N. McCloskey;
2. Comments from outside economics Stanley Fish;
3. Comments from inside economics Robert M. Solow;
4. Rhetoric and ideology Robert L. Heilbroner;

Part II. Economic Rhetoric: Further Arguments:
5. Marxian theory and the rhetorics of economics Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff;
6. Economic rhetoric: the social and historical context A. W. Coats;
7. The ideas of economists Robert W. Clower;
8. Should a scientist abstain from metaphor? Christina Bicchieri;

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 Philip Mirowski;
10. On the brittleness of the orange equilibrium E. Roy Weintraub;
11. The significance of significance: rhetorical aspects of statistical hypothesis testing in economics Frank T. Denton;
12. The rhetoric of self-interest: ideology of gender in economic theory Nancy Folbre and Heidi Hartmann;

Part IV. Economic Rhetoric in Politics and Journalism:
13. The heterogeneity of the economists' discourse: philosopher, priest, and hired gun Craufurd D. Goodwin;
14. The grammar of political economy James K. Galbraith;
15. The rhetoric of economics as viewed by a student of politics Robert O. Keohane;
16. 'Yellow rain' and 'supply-side economics': some rhetoric that failed David Warsh;

Part V. Economic Rhetoric: Its Rhetoric and its Consequences:
17. Negotiating a new conversation about economics Arjo Klamer;
18. The consequences of rhetoric Donald N. McCloskey; Appendix; Index.