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" Speaking of economics : "
Arjo Klamer.
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BL
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946197
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b700567
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| Main Entry
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Klamer, Arjo.
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| Title & Author
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Speaking of economics : : how to get in the conversation /\ Arjo Klamer.
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| Publication Statement
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ;New York :: Routledge,, 2007.
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Economics as social theory ;; [29]
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xxii, 199 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm.
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0203964489
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: 0415395100
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: 0415395119
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: 9780203964484
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: 9780415395106
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: 9780415395113
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-190) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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"Based on themes emerging from his popular Conversations with Economists (1983), Arjo Klamer once again distinguishes himself from other academic economists by writing about the profession - and its foibles - in plain English. How is it that a discipline that so permeates daily life is at once "soft" and scientific, powerful and ignored, noble and disdained? Here is an attempt to make sense of all that. Whether you are a student, academician, journalist, practicing economist, or interested outsider, Spat/king of Economics will get you interested in a conversation about economics."--Jacket.
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Economics.
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Economics.
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Nationalekonomi.
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| Dewey Classification
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330
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HB71.K53 2007
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