Download or read book Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics written by Deirdre N. McCloskey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-05-05 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that economics is a science, but a human science: a witty guide to the ins and outs of economic philosophy.
Download or read book Economic Persuasions written by Stephen Gudeman and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the transition from socialism to a market economy gathered speed in the early 1990s, many people proclaimed the final success of capitalism as a practice and neoliberal economics as its accompanying science. But with the uneven achievements of the “transition”—the deepening problems of “development,” persistent unemployment, the widening of the wealth gap, and expressions of resistance—the discipline of economics is no longer seen as a mirror of reality or as a unified science. How should we understand economics and, more broadly, the organization and disorganization of material life? In this book, international scholars from anthropology and economics adopt a rhetorical perspective in order to make sense of material life and the theories about it. Re-examining central problems in the two fields and using ethnographic and historical examples, they explore the intersections between these disciplines, contrast their methods and epistemologies, and show how a rhetorical approach offers a new mode of analysis while drawing on established contributions.
Download or read book If You re So Smart written by Deirdre N. McCloskey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1990-09-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this witty, accessible, and revealing book, Deirdre McCloskey demystifies economic theory and practice to show that behind the economists claim to certainty is the ancient art of storytelling. If You're So Smart will engage, enlighten, and empower anyone trying to evaluate the experts who stand ready to engineer our lives. "Writing with delicious wit and great seriousness."—Publishers Weekly. " "McCloskey is more interesting on an uninspired day than most of her peers can manage at their very best."—Peter Passell, New York Times
Download or read book The Rhetoric of Economics written by Deirdre N. McCloskey and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1998-05-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic in its field, this pathbreaking book humanized the scientific rhetoric of economics to reveal its literary soul. Economics needs to admit that it, like other sciences, works with metaphors and stories. Its most mathematical and statistical moments are properly dominated by comparison and narration, that is to say, human persuasion. The book was McCloskey's opening move in the development of a "humanomics," and unification of the sciences and the humanities on the field of ordinary business life.
Download or read book The Consequences of Economic Rhetoric written by Arjo Klamer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume are drawn from a recent conference at Wellesley College for both theoretical and applied economists, which explored the consequences of rhetoric and conversation within the field of economics.
Download or read book Post Modernism Economics and Knowledge written by Jack Amariglio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001-05-17 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only in the past twenty years have debates surrounding modernism and postmodernism begun to have an impact on economics. This new way of thinking rejects claims that science and mathematics provide the only models for the structure of economic knowledge. This ground-breaking volume brings together the essays of top theorists including Arjo Klamer, Deirdre McCloskey, Julie Nelson, Shaun Hargreaves-Heap and Philip Mirowski on a diverse range of topics such as gender, postcolonial theory and rationality as well as postmodernism.
Download or read book McCloskey s Rhetoric written by Benjamin Balak and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book examines the use of rhetoric in economics, focusing on the work of one of the discipline's most recognizable names; Deirdre McCloskey. It analyzes her major texts and evaluates their methodological and philosophical consequences.
Download or read book Bourgeois Dignity written by Deirdre N. McCloskey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that the biggest economic story of our times is how China & India have embraced neoliberalism, Deirdre McCloskey suggests that economic change depends less on foreign trade, investment or material causes, & a whole lot more on ideas & what people believe.
Download or read book Selected Essays by Frank H Knight Volume 1 written by Frank H. Knight and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank H. Knight (1885-1972) was a central figure—many say the dominant influence—in the development of the "Chicago School of Economics" at the University of Chicago in the 1930s and 1940s, where he taught future Nobel laureates Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, George Stigler, and many other notable scholars. It was Knight's embedded skepticism about the reach of economic knowledge that set the stage for the laissez-faire economics that matured at the University in the 1950s and 1960s. But as important as Knight's technical economic contributions were, he never strayed far from his broad philosophical interests and concern for the state of modern liberal democracy. Ross B. Emmett's selection of Knight's essays is the first to offer a comprehensive picture of the work of this notable social scientist over the span of his career. Included are not only Knight's most influential writings, but also a number of uncollected papers which have not previously been widely accessible. These essays illustrate Knight's views on the central debates regarding economics, social science, ethics, education, and modern liberalism. Volume 1: "What is Truth" in Economics? contains fifteen of Knight's papers up through 1940. Volume 2: Laissez Faire: Pro and Con includes fourteen of Knight's papers from 1940 through 1967, including "Socialism: The Nature of the Problem" and "The Sickness of Liberal Society." These twenty-nine essays together stand not only as a monument to one of economics' most significant and original thinkers, but will also serve as an invaluable resource for economists, philosophers, and political scientists interested in the development of the western liberal tradition.
Download or read book The Economic Consequences of the Peace written by John Maynard Keynes and published by Simon Publications LLC. This book was released on 1920 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Maynard Keynes, then a rising young economist, participated in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 as chief representative of the British Treasury and advisor to Prime Minister David Lloyd George. He resigned after desperately trying and failing to reduce the huge demands for reparations being made on Germany. The Economic Consequences of the Peace is Keynes' brilliant and prophetic analysis of the effects that the peace treaty would have both on Germany and, even more fatefully, the world.
Download or read book The Secret Sins of Economics written by Deirdre N. McCloskey and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deidre N. McCloskey's work in economics calls into question its reputation as "the dismal science". She writes with passion and an unusually wide scope, drawing on literature and intellectual history in exciting, if unorthodox, ways. In this pamphlet, McCloskey reveals what she sees as the secret sins of economics that no one will discuss - two sins that "cripple" economics as a "scientific enterprise."
Download or read book Knowledge Economies written by Wilfred Dolfsma and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-09-03 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Knowledge and learning -- chapter 3 Creating knowledge: Transfer, exchange and gifts -- chapter 4 Development of economic knowledge: Paradigms and new ideas -- chapter 5 Knowledge exchange in networks: within-firm analysis -- chapter 6 Knowledge exchange between firms: economic geography of high-tech firms -- chapter 7 The knowledge base of an economy: What contributes to its entropy? -- chapter 8 A dynamic welfare perspective for the knowledge economy -- chapter 9 Concluding remarks.
Download or read book Beyond Positivism written by Bruce Caldwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in 1982, Beyond Positivism has become established as one of the definitive statements on economic methodology. The book‘s rejection of positivism and its advocacy of pluralism were to have a profound influence in the flowering of work methodology that has taken place in economics in the decade since its publication. This editi
Download or read book Anthropology and Economy written by Stephen Gudeman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a uniquely cross-cultural perspective, renowned economic anthropologist Stephen Gudeman presents a theory of economic crisis and lessons for its mitigation, in light of the recent global financial crash. This compelling book is richly illustrated with examples from 'strange' small-scale economies as well as developed market economies.
Download or read book The New Economic Criticism written by Martha Woodmansee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-10-09 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a pathbreaking work which develops a new form of economic analysis. This collection brings together 27 essays by influential literary and cultural historians as well as representatives of the vanguard of postmodernist economics.
Download or read book Communication and Economic Theory written by Birger P. Priddat and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-04 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the different topics which highlight the relevance of communication within markets. In using and reformulating concepts of Arrow, Commons, Williamson, North, Becker and others, the author shows the hidden implications of these authors for a new approach in economics: communication matters. Markets are systems of allocation, which are governed by communication networks. In Economics, so far, communication processes play a minor role. During the last century, there was a tendency of using ‘communication’ as a tool for reintroducing the diversity of rational actions. Yet, communication is a governance-structure of its own, which cannot be used as a tool, since communication is disturbing the expectations of the economics actors and changing the actor’s preferences as well as their belief-systems. By using examples such as Kenneth Arrow’s economics actor theory and Douglas North’s emphasis on communication being a process of building ‘shared mental models’, this book argues that if communication matters, we have to reinterpret the basics of economic methodology and integrate network-processing and discourse theories.
Download or read book Humanomics written by Vernon L. Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articulates Adam Smith's model of human sociality, illustrated in experimental economic games that relate easily to business and everyday life. Shows how to re-humanize the study of economics in the twenty-first century by integrating Adam Smith's two great books into contemporary empirical analysis.
