Table of Contents
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- In conversation with (acknowledgments)
- Exordium: Getting into the Conversation
- Chapter 1. The Strangeness of the Discipline
- Chapter 2. Economics is a Conversation or Better, a Bunch of Conversations
- Strange, Continued
- A Proposal and an Image
- Getting into the Conversation
- Probing the Notion of Conversation
- This Metaphor Versus Others
- The Character of a Scientific Conversation
- So What? Further Reading
Chapter 3. What it Takes to be an Academic Dog or The Culture of the Academic Conversation
- Rhetorical Obstacles
- Switching Conversations May Require a Conversion
- That the Message Comes Through: Differences Do Matter
- Look Beyond Economics and See the Parallels
- All Kinds of ISM's Characterize Historical Phases in Economic Conversations
- The Advent of Modernism
- The Modernist Movement Prevailed But Other Movements Were Kept Alive, Making for Lively Scenery and Enduring Differences
- The Square and the Circle
- The Problem With the Timing of Modernism
- Then the Phase of Late-Modernism Sets In
- Disappearing Acts
- So Where Is Contemporary Economics?
- So Where Does That Leave the Economic Conversations?
- Look Beyond Economics and See the Parallels
- The Gap with Everyday Economics
- The Gap with the World of Politics Further Reading
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Conversation and Function
Introducing the Notion of Culture
Academic Dogs
Academic Versus Non-Academic Culture
The Academic Commons
The Ambiguity of Academic Values
Justifying the Conversation
So What?
Further Reading
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The Name of the Game
Being Busy and Getting Lost
Attention and the Conversation
The Harsh Facts
Is Science a Game of Wasteful Competition?
How to Get Attention
So What?
Further Reading
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Responding to Hard-Nosed and Lazy-Dazy Ideas About Economics
How About Scientific Standards? Go to the Practice!
Hope and Prospects for the Science of Economics
The Harsh Facts
Does the Philosophizing Matter?
One Consequence: How to Be Critical
So What?
Appendix
Further Reading
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Rhetoric Introduced
What Can Rhetoric Mean For Us?
Argumentation Drives the Scientific Conversation
Getting the Stories Right
Does the Philosophizing Matter?
One Consequence: How to Be Critical
So What?
Glossary of Selected Terms
Further Reading
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Why Indeed?
Part 1. A bunch of conversations is going on and switching from one to another is not as easy as it seems
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The Stupidity Problem