The Common Weal and Economic Stories

D. N. Mccloskey

Chapter 7 in What do Economists Contribute?, 1999, pp 105-118 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The worldly philosophers change the world with their stories and metaphors. There’s work for the econo-literary critic in showing how the rhetoric matters to policy and in distinguishing the good stories of policy from the bad. (Robert Boynton, among other things a politico-literary critic, has done so for the Senate Agriculture Committee [1987].)

Keywords: Trade Balance; Interstate Commerce Commission; Football Helmet; Worldly Philosopher; American Doctor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-14913-1_7

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