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The Rhetoric of McCloskey's Rhetoric of Economics

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D. McCloskey's project of a rhetoric of economics contains a rejection of traditional epistemology in favor of a form of pragmatism. He uses, however, 'effective persuasion' and 'community' as surrogates for the epistemologist's 'method' and 'truth.' Equipped with these surrogates, he declares the good health of economics. At the heart of his argument is an analogy according to which discourse in economics is like a market for ideas. That analogy justifies established paradigms despite the rejection of their methodological underpinnings. This paper analyzes McCloskey's own rhetoric in his defense of the intellectual direction taken by economics. (c) 1995 Academic Press, Inc. Copyright 1995 by Oxford University Press.

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  • Stettler, Michael, 1995. "The Rhetoric of McCloskey's Rhetoric of Economics," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 19(3), pages 391-403, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:cambje:v:19:y:1995:i:3:p:391-403
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    1. Suzuki, Tomo, 2003. "The accounting figuration of business statistics as a foundation for the spread of economic ideas," Accounting, Organizations and Society, Elsevier, vol. 28(1), pages 65-95, January.
    2. Alexander Dow & Sheila Dow & Alan Hutton, 1997. "The Scottish Political Economy Tradition and Modern Economics," Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Scottish Economic Society, vol. 44(4), pages 368-383, September.

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