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8. Rhetorical Criticism in Economics

[63]  “The Rhetoric of Economics,” Journal of Economic Literature  31 (June 1983): 482-517; reprinted in B. J. Caldwell, ed., Appraisal and Criticism in Economics  (Allen and Unwin, 1985); translated into Japanese, Contemporary Economics  61 (Spring 1985), pp. 156-184.
 
[64] (a.) “Reply to Caldwell and Coats,” Journal of Economic Literature  22 (June 1984): 579-80.
 
[65] (b.) “Sartorial Epistemology in Tatters: A Reply to Martin Hollis,” Economics and Philosophy  1 (Apr 1985): 134-137.
 
[ See also Replies to Reviews of The Rhetoric of Economics, below]
 
[66] “The Character of Argument in Modern Economics: How Muth Persuades,” in Proceeding of the Third Summer Conference on Argumentation, sponsored by the Speech Communication Association and the American Forensic Association, Annandale, Va., Fall 1983, revised for The Rhetoric of Economics.
 
[67] ”The Literary Character of Economics,” Daedalus  113 (3, Summer 1984): 97-119.
 
[130] “A Conversation with McCloskey About Rhetoric” Eastern Economic Journal, (Oct-Dec 1985): 293-296.
 
[131] “The Rhetoric of Economics,” Social Science 71 (2/3, Fall 1986): 97-102 (prepared by Frank Moore from a talk at the Institute in Social Science, University of North Carolina, Jan 1986).
 
[133] “Economics as a Historical Science.”  Pp. 63-69 in William Parker, ed. Economic History and the Modern Economist (NY: Basil Blackball, 1986; Italian translation, 1988, Liters Editore).
 
[135] “Rhetoric,” in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic Thought and Doctrine (Macmillan, 1987). 
 
[140] ”The Rhetoric of Economic Development: Rethinking Development Economics,” Cato Journal 7 (Spring/Summer 1987): 249-54; reprinted with minor revisions in James Dorn and A. A. Walters, eds. The Revolution in Development Economics,  1993.
 
[70] “Towards a Rhetoric of Economics,” pp. 13-29 in G.C. Winston and R.F. Teichgraeber III, eds., The Boundaries of Economics, Murphy Institute Studies in Political Economy.  Cambridge University Press, 1988.
 
[72] “Thick and Thin Methodologies in the History of Economic Thought.”  Pp. 245-257 in Neil de Mari, ed., The Popperian Legacy in Economics  (Cambridge University Press, 1988).
 
[73] [with Arjo Klamer] “Economics in the Human Conversation,” pp. 3-20 in Klamer, McCloskey, and Solow, eds., The Consequences of Rhetoric  (Cambridge University Press, 1988).
 
[74] “The Consequences of Rhetoric,” pp. 280-294 in Klamer, et al. eds.,  The Consequences of Rhetoric,  Cambridge University Press, 1988 [reprinted in Fundamenta Scientiae  9 (2/3, 1988): 269-284 (a Brazilian journal)].
 
[145] “Their Blackboard, Right or Wrong: A Comment on Contested Exchange.”  Politics and Society 18 (2, June 1990): 223-232.
 
[78]  “Storytelling in Economics.”  Pp. 5-22 in Christopher Nash and Martin Warner, eds., Narrative in Culture  (Routledge 1990); and pp. 61-75 in Don C. Lavoie, ed. Economics and Hermeneutics (Routledge 1990).  An earlier version, with discussion, appeared in Orace Johnson, ed. Methodology and Accounting Research: Does the Past Have a Future (Proceedings of the 8th Annual Big Ten Accounting Doctoral Consortium, May, 1987: 69-76).
 
[214] “Telling Stories Economically,” The Ludwig von Mises Lecture Series: Economic Education: 22: 83-107.
 
[79] “Formalism in Economics, Rhetorically Speaking,”  Ricerche Economiche  43 (1989), 1-2 (Jan-June): 57-75.  Reprinted with minor revisions in American Sociologist 21 (1, Spring, 1990): 3-19.
 
[80a] “Reply to Peter Mueser,” American Sociologist  21 (1, Spring 1990): 26-28.
 
[80] [with Arjo Klamer] “The Rhetoric of Disagreement,”  Rethinking Marxism  2 (Fall 1989): 140-161.  Reprinted in D.H. Prychitko, ed. Why Economists Disagree, Albany: SUNY  Press, 1998.
 
[84] [with Arjo Klamer] “Accounting as the Master Metaphor of Economics,” European Accounting Review  1 (1, May, 1992): 145-160.
 
[86] “Agon and Ag Ec: Styles of Persuasion in Agricultural Economics,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics  72 (Dec 1990): 1124-1130.
 
[87] “The Rhetoric of Economic Expertise.”  Pp. 137-147 in Richard H. Roberts and J. M. M. Good, eds., The Recovery of Rhetoric: Persuasive Discourse and Disciplinarity in the Human Sciences.  1993.  Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1993.  In French as “La rhétorique de l’expertise économique” in Vincent de Coorebyter, ed., Rhétorique de la Science Paris: Presse Universitaires de France, in the series “L'interrogation philosophique,” M. Meyer, ed., pp 171-188.
 
[89] “Mere Style in Economics, 1920 to the Present,” Economic Notes  20 (1, 1991): 135-148.
 
[90] “Economic Science: A Search Through the Hyperspace of Assumptions?”  Methodus  3 (1, June 1991): 6-16.
 
[164] “The Arrogance of Economic Theorists” [Die Arroganz der Wirtschaftstheorie: Okonomische Rechenkunste im Zwielicht], Neue Zurcher Zeitung, 31 August/ 1 Sept 1991, p. 85, in the series Themen und Thesen der Wirtschaft, reprinted (in English) in Swiss Review of World Affairs 41 (no. 7, Oct 1991): 11-12.
 
[165] “Les Métaphores de la Science Economique.”  Le Monde, Apr 28, 1992, p. 39.
 
[138c] “The Rhetoric of Finance,” for the New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance, 1992: 350-352.
 
[122e] “Review of de Marchi and Blaug, eds., Appraising Economic Theories.”  Journal of Economic Literature  31 (1, Mar 1993): 229-231.
 
[122c] “Review of Samuels, ed. Economics as Discourse.”  Journal of Economic History  53 (1, Mar 1993): 204-206
 
[185] “Review of Rosenberg's Economics: Mathematical Politics?”  Isis  84 (4, Dec 1993): 838-39.
 
[182] “How to Do a Rhetorical Analysis of Economics, and Why,” in Roger Backhouse, ed., Economic Methodology.  London: Routledge, 1994: 319-342.
 
[172] “Economics and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge,”  in Robert Goodman and Walter Fisher, eds., Rethinking Knowledge: Reflections Across the Disciplines  (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995).
 
[203]  “Fun in Econ 101, review of John Kenneth Galbraith’s A Journey Through Economic Time: A Firsthand View,” Chicago Tribune Book World, Sept 25, 1994, Sec. 14, p. 4.
 
[206]  “One Quarter of GDP is Persuasion,” [with Arjo Klamer] The American Economic Review 85, (2, May 1995): 191-195.
 
[207]  “How Economists Persuade,” Journal of Economic Methodology 1 (1, June 1994): 15-32.
 
[193]  “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, comment on Sandra Harding’s ‘Can Feminist Thought Make Economics More Objective?’,” Feminist Economics 1 (3, Fall 1995): 119-124.
 
[194]  “Metaphors Economists Live By,” Social Research 62 (2, Summer 1995): 215-237.
 
{Drafted Summer 1996: “The Demoralization of Economics;  1776-1848: Can We Recover from Bentham?”}
 
[243] “Simulating Barbara,” Feminist Economics 4 (3, Fall, 1998): 181-186.
 
[244] “Ask What the Boys in the Sandpit Will Have,” (London) Times Higher Education  Supplement, 1996.
 
“[218] The Genealogy of Postmodernism: An Economist’s Guide.”  Forthcoming, Steven Cullenberg, ed. Postmodernism and Economics, NY and London: Routledge, 2000.
 
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