Routledge Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition
economics as rhetoric (B4)
A disciplined form of conversation that rejects modern quantitative economics which has prediction as its goal, in favour of a literary approach which examines the nature of economists’ various arguments, recognizing the metaphors used and questioning the objectivity of the subject.
See also: economic methodology
References
Klamer, A., McCloskey, D.N.
and Solow, R.M. (eds) (1989) The Consequences of Economic Rhetoric, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
McCloskey, D.N. (1983) ‘The rhetoric of economics’, Journal of Economic Literature 21 (June):481–517.
——(1986) The Rhetoric of Economics, Brighton: Wheatsheaf.
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