Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics

by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

Book Overview

Donald McCloskey's previous books, The Rhetoric of Economics and If You're So Smart, aimed to bring economics back into the wider conversation of the day. In Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics he carries the conversation further, into the seminars of philosophers. His message is that economics is a science, but a human science. It is properly mathematical, but literary too. His book is highly unusual: a work of technical economics that can be read...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521436036
• ISBN13: 9780521436038
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"