Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics Kobe Bryant Wolf with his racehorses

Wolf with his racehorses

'A smart twist on the apocalypse' Reader Review

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Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics Kobe Bryant Wolf with his racehorsesDonald McCloskey's previous books, The Rhetoric of Economics and If You're So Smart, aimed to bring economics back into the wider conversation of the day. In Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics he carries the conversation further, into the seminars of philosophers. His message is that economics is a science, but a human science. It is properly mathematical, but literary too. His book is highly unusual: a work of technical economics that can be read