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

2006-1  

Klamer, Arjo; McCloskey, Deidre; Solow, Robert M.  

305  

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.

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

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