Essays on the Methodology and Discourse of Economics

Essays on the Methodology and Discourse of Economics

Author: Warren J. Samuels

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1992-06-18

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1349123714

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Contains a collection of articles on economics as a system of discourse and on certain epistemological problems of economics. The treatment of both topics centres on the role of often implicit assumptions as to whose interests count in reaching conclusions especially as to policy.


Economics Broadly Considered

Economics Broadly Considered

Author: Jeff E. Biddle

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2001-03-29

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 1134561431

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Warren J. Samuels has been a prominent figure in the study of economics in the twentieth century. This book brings together essays by leading scholars in the areas of economics in which Samuels has made his most important contributions: the history of economic thought, economic methodology, and institutional and post-Keynesian economics. This work


The Rhetoric of Economics

The Rhetoric of Economics

Author: Deirdre N. McCloskey

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 1998-05-15

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0299158136

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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.


Essays in the History of Heterodox Political Economy

Essays in the History of Heterodox Political Economy

Author: Warren J. Samuels

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1992-06-18

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1349122637

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A collection of articles on topics and individuals within the history of heterodox economic thought, approached from a heterodox perspective. The individuals whose work is singled out include Edward Bellamy, Thorstein Veblen, Edwin E. Witte, Robert Lee Hale and Joan Robinson.


The Language of Economics

The Language of Economics

Author: Willie Henderson

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9780333512173

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This volume draws together various strands of research and teaching related to language and economics. The key paper is that of Professor McCloskey, an economist who has criticized the evidence of economics writing in his book The Rhetoric of Economics.


Discourse and Narrative Methods

Discourse and Narrative Methods

Author: Mona Livholts

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2015-04-14

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1473927757

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Discourses and narratives are crucial in how we understand a world of rapid changes. This textbook constitutes a unique introduction to two major influential theoretical and methodological fields - discourse and narrative methods - and examines them in their interrelation. It offers readers an orientation within the broad and contested area of discourse and narrative methods and develops concrete analytical strategies to those who wish to explore both or one of these fields as well as their overlaps. Illustrated with examples from real life and real research, this book: Maps the theoretical influence from poststructuralist, postmodern, postcolonial and feminist ideas on the field of discourse and narrative. Acts as a guide to the most central analytical approaches in discourse and narrative studies supported by concrete examples of analytical strategies. Presents a variety of oral, textual, visual and other ’data’ for the purpose of analyzing discourse and narrative. Offers deeper insight into discourse and narrative methods within three themes of crucial importance for changing global context: media and society, gender and space, and autobiography and life writing. Acts as a helpful guide to situated writing based on concrete workshop exercises, which promotes ethical reflexivity, analytical thinking and creative engagement in the study of discourses and narratives.