The rhetoric of McCloskey's rhetoric of economics
分析了麦克洛斯基在辩护经济学发展方向时使用的修辞策略，指出他用“有效说服”和“共同体”替代传统认识论中的“方法”和“真理”，并通过市场类比来维护既有范式。
D. McCloskey's project of a rhetoric of economics contains a rejection of traditional epistemology in favor of a form of pragmatism. He uses, however, 'effective persuasion' and 'community' as surrogates for the epistemologist's 'method' and 'truth.' Equipped with these surrogates, he declares the good health of economics. At the heart of his argument is an analogy according to which discourse in economics is like a market for ideas. That analogy justifies established paradigms despite the rejection of their methodological underpinnings. This paper analyzes McCloskey's own rhetoric in his defense of the intellectual direction taken by economics. (c) 1995 Academic Press, Inc. Copyright 1995 by Oxford University Press.