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10. The Rhetoric of Inquiry

[71] [with Allan Megill and John Nelson] “Rhetoric of Inquiry.”  Pp. 3-18 in Nelson, Megill, and McCloskey, eds. The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences (University of Wisconsin Press, 1987).
 
[76] “The Limits of Expertise: If You're So Smart, Why Ain't You Rich?”  The American Scholar  57 (3) (Summer 1988): 393-406.  Reprinted as pp. 92-111 in J. Lee Auspitz, W. W. Gasparski, M. K. Mlicki, and K. Szaniawski, eds.  Praxiologies and the Philosophy of Economics.  Spanish translation as “Si de verdad eras tan listo . . . (I)” in Revista de Occidente 83 (Apr 1988): 71-86.  Reprinted in B. J. Caldwell, ed. The Philosophy and Methodology of Economics, Vol. II (Edward Elgar: 1993).
 
[204] “An Economic Uncertainty Principle,” Scientific American  (Nov 1994): 107.
 
 [216]  “Computation Outstrips Analysis,” Scientific American  (July 1995): 26.
 
 [142] “The Very Idea of Epistemology: A Comment on Hausman and McPherson's 'Standards'“ Economics and Philosophy 5 (Spring 1989): 1-6.
 
[75] “The Dismal Science and Mr. Burke: Economics as a Critical Theory,” pp. 99-114 in H. W. Simons and T. Melia, eds.  The Legacy of Kennneth Burke (Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989).
 
[81] “Why I Am No Longer a Positivist.”  Review of Social Economy 47 (3, Fall, 1989): 225-238.
 
[158a] “Review of Wayne Booth The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction,” Chicago Tribune Book World, Dec 25, 1988, Sec. 14, p. 5.
 
[ 161] “Review of Allan Bloom's Giants and Dwarfs: Essays, 1960-1990,” Chicago Tribune Book World, Oct 1990.
 
[82] ”Keeping the Company of Sophisters, Economists, and Calculators,” in Fred Antczak, ed., Keeping Company: Rhetoric, Pluralism and Wayne Booth. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1994).
 
[148] “Forward” to Robert H. Nelson, Reaching for Heaven on Earth: The Theological Meaning of Economics.  Savage, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1991, pp. xi-xvii.
 
[83] ”Voodoo Economics,”  Poetics Today  12 (2, Summer 1991): 287-300.
 
[92a] “Platonic Insults: 'Rhetorical'.”  Common Knowledge  2 (2, Fall 1993): 23-32.
 
[198]  “The Unquashed Masses, review of John Carey,  The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939," Reason, 26 (3, July 1994): 60-61.
 
[219]  “Big Rhetoric, Little Rhetoric: Gaonkar on the Rhetoric of Science,” in Alan G. Gross and William M. Keith, ed., Rhetorical Hermeneutics, Invention and Interpretation in the Age of Science, (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997): pp 101-112.
 
[233] “Exchange of Letters on The Consequences of Pragmatism,”  Times Literary Supplement, August 26, 1983.
 
{[234] “You Shouldn’t Want a Realism if You Have a Rhetoric,”  Paper for Rotterdam Conference on Realism, Nov 1997, 26 pp.}