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- 224 pages
- English
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Making sense of economists and their world in a persuasive and entertaining style, Arjo Klamer, the author of a number of influential books including Conversation with Economists and The Consequences of Economic Rhetoric, shows that economics is as much about how people interact as it is about the models, the mathematics, the econometrics, the theo
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Economics as social theory
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Illustrations
- Exordium
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The strangeness of the discipline
- 2 Economics is a conversation or, better, a bunch of conversations
- 3 What it takes to be an academic dog, or the culture of the academic conversation
- 4 Itâs the attention, stupid!
- 5 A good scientific conversation, or contribution thereto, is truthful and meaningful and serves certain interests
- 6 The art of economic persuasion
- 7 Why disagreements among economists persist, why economists need to brace themselves for differences within their simultaneous conversations and their conversations over time, and why they may benefit from knowing about classicism, modernism, and postmodernism
- 8 How and why everyday conversations differ from academic ones and how and why academic conversations clash with political ones
- Peroratio
- Notes
- Bibliography