{"product_id":"knowledge-and-persuasion-in-economics-hardback-9780521434751","title":"Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics (Hardback) 9780521434751","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eKnowledge and Persuasion in Economics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eArgues that economics is a science, but a human science: a witty guide to the ins and outs of economic philosophy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDeirdre N. McCloskey (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521434751, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 May 1994\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e464 pages, 4 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.85 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"The book reviewed here is actually the third installment of a trilogy, which began with The Rhetoric of Economics and includes If You're So Smart....To sum up: the views presented in the book are in several aspects richer than McCloskey's earlier views.\"   Pragmatic \u0026amp; Cognition\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIs economics a science? Deidre McCloskey says 'Yes, but'. Yes, economics measures and predicts, but - like other sciences - it uses literary methods too. Economists use stories as geologists do, and metaphors as physicists do. The result is that the sciences, economics among them, must be read as 'rhetoric', in the sense of writing with intent. McCloskey's books, The Rhetoric of Economics(1985) and If You're So Smart(1990), have been widely discussed. In Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics he converses with his critics, suggesting that they too can gain from knowing their rhetoric. The humanistic and mathematical approaches to economics, says McCloskey, fit together in a new 'interpretive' economics. Along the way he places economics within the sciences, examines the role of mathematics in the field, replies to critics from the left, right and centre, and shows how economics can again take a leading place in the conversation of humankind.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Exordium: 1. A positivist youth\u003cbr\u003e 2. Kicking the dead horse\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Narration: 3. Economics in the human conversation\u003cbr\u003e 4. The rhetoric of economics\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Division: 5. The Science word in economics\u003cbr\u003e 6. Three ways of reading economics to criticize itself\u003cbr\u003e 7. Popper and Lakatos: thin ways of reading economics\u003cbr\u003e 8. Thick readings: ethics, economics, sociology and rhetoric\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Proof: 9. The rise of a scientistic style\u003cbr\u003e 10. The rhetoric of mathematical formalism: existence theorems\u003cbr\u003e 11. General equilibrium and the rhetorical history of formalism\u003cbr\u003e 12. Blackboard Marxism\u003cbr\u003e 13. Formalists as poets and politicians\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Refutation: 14. The very idea of epistemology\u003cbr\u003e 15. The tu quoque argument and the claims of rationalism\u003cbr\u003e 16. Armchair philosophy of economics: Rosenberg and Hausman\u003cbr\u003e 17. Philosophy of science without epistemology: the Popperians\u003cbr\u003e 18. The Rosenberg: reactionary modernism\u003cbr\u003e 19. Methodologists of economics, big-M and small\u003cbr\u003e 20. Getting 'rhetoric': Mark Blaug and the Eleatic Stranger\u003cbr\u003e 21. Coats\/McPherson\/Friedman: anti-meta-post-modernism\u003cbr\u003e 22. Splenetic rationalism, Austrian style\u003cbr\u003e 23. The economists of ideology: Heilbroner, Rossetti, and Mirowski\u003cbr\u003e 24. Rhetoric as morally radical\u003cbr\u003e Part VI. Peroration: 25. The economy as a conversation\u003cbr\u003e 26. The consequences of rhetoric.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Economic theory \u0026amp; philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Economic theory \u0026amp; philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Economic%20theory%20\u0026amp;%20philosophy%20%5BKCA%5D%22\"\u003eKCA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007295246616,"sku":"9780521434751","price":118.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521434751i_dd8d119f-a86a-4e9e-855a-1e9b672d74b0.jpg?v=1691381807","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/knowledge-and-persuasion-in-economics-hardback-9780521434751","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}