Economics and Language

Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I EXPLORING THE LANGUAGE AND RHETORIC OF ECONOMICS /Roger Backkouse, Tony Dudley-Evans and Willie Henderson -- Part I Rhetoric and critical theory -- 2 TWO PHILOSOPHIES OF THE RHETORIC OF ECONOMICS /Uskali Miiki -- 3 THE SIGNIFICANCE OF INTERPRETATION IN ECONOMICS /Bill Gerrard -- 4 DECANONIZING DISCOURSES: TEXTUAL ANALYSIS AND THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT /Vivienne Brown -- 5 MEANING IN THE CONTEXT OF BARGAINING GAMES - NARRATIVES IN OPPOSITION /Judith Mehta -- Part II Controversy and hedging in economics -- 6 THE DEBATE OVER MILTON FRIEDMAN'S THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK: AN ECONOMIST'S VIEW /Roger Backkouse -- 7 THE DEBATE OVER MILTON FRIEDMAN'S THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK.: AN APPLIED LINGUIST'S VIEW /Tony Dudley-Evans -- 8 HOW ECONOMISTS MODIFY PROPOSITIONS /Meriel Bloor and Thomas Bloor -- Part III Language and the history of economic thought -- 9 MONEY TALKS: THE RHETORICAL PROJECT OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS /Charles Ba,zerman -- 10 THE PROBLEM OF EDGEWORTH'S STYLE /Willie Henderson -- 11 THE PARADOX OF VALUE: SIX TREATMENTS IN SEARCH OF THE READER /John M. Swales -- Index.