Arjo Klamer

Speaking of Economics (eBook, ePUB)

How to Get in the Conversation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134158232
• Artikelnr.: 38267383

Autorenporträt

Arjo Klamer is Professor of Cultural Economics at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and Dean of the Academia Vitae.

Inhaltsangabe

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. It's the Attention, Stupid! 5.
A Good Scientific Conversation, or Contribution Thereto, is Truthful,
Meaningful and Serves Certain Interests 6. The Art of Economic Persuasion:
About Rhetoric and All That 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