Description: Speaking of economics

Item Description:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-190) and index. The strangeness of the discipline -- Economics is a conversation or, better, a bunch of conversations -- What it takes to be an academic dog, or the culture of the academic conversation -- It's the attention, stupid! -- A good scientific conversation, or contribution thereto, is truthful and meaningful and serves certain interests -- The art of economic persuasion: about rhetoric and all that -- Why disagreements among economists persist, why economists need to brace themselves for differences withing their simultaneous conversations and their conversations over time, and why they may benefit from knowing about classicism, modernism, and postmodernism -- How and why everyday conversations differ from academic ones and how and why academic conversations clash with political ones.
Physical Description:	xxii, 199 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-190) and index.
ISBN:	0415395100 0415395119 9780415395113 9780415395106 9780203964484 0203964489