Overview

"This edited volume of papers on rhetoric and economics grew out of an interdisciplinary conference held at Millikin University in the summer of 2005. Drawing on economist Deirdre McCloskey's pioneering work, ""The Rhetoric of Economics"", the essays seek to integrate the analytic study of language use in economic theory with an appreciation for its effect on the material culture that supports social life."

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Author:   Edward Montgomery Clift ,  Deirdre McCloskey
Publisher:   The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
Imprint:   Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
ISBN:  

9780773451438

ISBN 10:   0773451439
Pages:   476
Publication Date:   31 March 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface - Paul Turpin; Acknowledgements; Foreword: How to Buy, Sell, Make, Manage, Produce, Transact, Consume, with Words - Deirdre McCloskey; Introduction - Edward M. Clift; 1 Rhetoric, Markets, and Value Creation: Notes towards a Productive Rhetoric - Locke Carter; 2 J.S. Mill's Art and Business of Life and the Humility of Bona Fide Scholarship - David Gore; 3 The Meaning-Surplus of Rhetoric and Hermeneutics: Metaphor and Humanism in Economics - Till Duppe; 4 The State of Economics Methodology in the Education of Economics in Iran - Mohammad Hassan Fotros; 5 Neoliberalism and Rhetoric: The Brazilian Chapter - Leda Maria Paulani; 6 Teaching Rhetoric with Economics: A Canon of Eloquence, Truth, Lies, or All of the Above? - Ken Baake; 7 Negotiating Transaction Cost Economics: Oliver Williamson and his Audiences - Huascar F. Pessali and Ramon G. Fernandez; 8 The Cameelious Hump and 'Just-So Stories' in Economic Literature: A Linguistic Analysis - Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Nils Goldschmidt; 9 Making Rhetoric Work: An Analysis of the Work of Robert Putnam - Leonardo M. Monasterio and Ramon G. Fernandez; 10 The Rhetoricity of Enterprise - Dale Cyphert; 11 Making McCloskey's Rhetoric Empirical: Company Law and Tragedies of the Commons in Nineteenth-Century Britain - Wade E. Shilts; 12 The Devil and the Angel Whispering in the Spouse's Ear: Protecting Sanctity of the Marriage between Antitrust and Economics - Benjamin Balak and Jonathan M. Lave; 13 Inventing Markets: Limits of Construction, Limits of Fact - Michael Salvo; 14 Economic Externalities and Ecologies: Opportunities to Solve Market Failures that Cause Air Pollution - Joseph Siry; 15 The Market as Metaphor: Four Stories of the Market at U.S. Policy Think Tanks - Peter-Wim Zuidhof; 16 Money Talks: Alan Greenspan and the Voice of Capital - Geoffrey D. Klinger; 17 Premonition as Profit: Hyper-Capitalism and the Cultivation of Anxiety - Edward M. Clift; Index.

Reviews

This book, edited by Edward Clift, collects together for the first time a transdisciplinary (and truly international) conversation about language, rhetoric, and economics, and... how rhetoric essentially is the economy. - Steve Ziliak Professor of Economics Roosevelt University

Author Information

Dr. Edward Clift is Associate Professor and Chair of Communication at Woodbury University in Burbank, California. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Utah.

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