New York, NY, Estados Unidos : Cambridge University Press, 2006, c1988.

x, 305 p. ; 23 cm.

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? / Cristina Bicchieri. -- Part III. Economic Rhetoric Among Economists. -- 9. Shall I compare thee to a Minkowski-Ricardo-Leontief-Metsler 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 / Crawford 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: Other contributors and participants. --

Tomado de la cubierta: "Economics is a science, but it is a human science. Economists are above all writers and speakers. This volume examines the new self-consciousness about how economists converse. A distinguished group of academics, with startling conclusions. The consequences are practical: An economics that knows itself better will play a better role in the conversation of humankind."

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