The Rhetoric of Economics. Second Edition

Translated by О. Yakimenko; under scientific ed. D. Raskov. — Moscow, St. Petersburg: Gaidar Institute Press, International Relations Publishing House, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University, 2015. – 328 p. – (Series "New Economic Thinking").

ISBN 978-5-93255-413-5
ISBN 978-5-7133-1496-5

Economists cannot remain in the "ivory tower", i.e., apart from what is happening in philosophy, linguistics and the history of science. McCloskey's book was a real breakthrough, which testifies to the emergence of economic science from self-isolation.

The completely revised second edition is devoted to the poetics of economic science, the main emphasis is on the place of metaphor and other rhetorical means of persuasion in Becker's economic imperialism, Coase's economic and legal treatises, Vogel's economic history, Muth's theory of rational expectations and, finally, in the mathematization of economic science.