Mccloskey, Economics as Conversation, and Sprachethik

Posted: 31 Jan 2001

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Man-Seop Park

Korea University - Department of Economics

Serap A. Kayatekin

Independent

Abstract

In writing about the "rhetoric of economics" - particularly about the standards which prevent situations where "anything goes" in argument - McCloskey takes an eclectic approach to two philosophical positions, based on Rorty and Habermas respectively. But these positions, despite sharing some common aspects, also differentiate themselves from each other sharply in important ways. In this paper, it is argued that this eclecticism of McCloskey is not coherent, as a result of her not completely grasping the fundamental differences between these two positions, and that this incoherence has damaging implications for her project of the rhetoric of economics.

Keywords: Methodology, Rhetoric, McCloskey, Habermas, Sprachethik

Suggested Citation

Park, Man-Seop and Kayatekin, Serap A., Mccloskey, Economics as Conversation, and Sprachethik. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=245591

Man-Seop Park (Contact Author)

Korea University - Department of Economics ( email )

1 Anam-dong 5 ka
Seoul, 136-701
Korea

Serap A. Kayatekin

Independent

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