The rhetoric of economics

By:

McCloskey, Deirdre

Material type:

TextPublication details: Madison, Wis University of Wisconsin Press c1998Description: xxi,223p. ; 24cmISBN:

9780299158149

Subject(s):

Economics

DDC classification:

330McC

Summary: A classic in its field, this pathbreaking book humanized the scientific rhetoric of economics to reveal its literary soul. Economics needs to admit that it, like other sciences, works with metaphors and stories. Its most mathematical and statistical moments are properly dominated by comparison and narration, that is to say, human persuasion. The book was McCloskey's opening move in the development of a humanomics and unification of the sciences and the humanities on the field of ordinary business life.

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Book	UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dodoma Sustainable Development	330McC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	UR005052

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-217) and index.

A classic in its field, this pathbreaking book humanized the scientific rhetoric of economics to reveal its literary soul. Economics needs to admit that it, like other sciences, works with metaphors and stories. Its most mathematical and statistical moments are properly dominated by comparison and narration, that is to say, human persuasion. The book was McCloskey's opening move in the development of a humanomics and unification of the sciences and the humanities on the field of ordinary business life.

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