What do Economists Know?: New Economics of Knowledge

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ISBN: 9780415152600 | 0415152607
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 10/20/1999

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This volume rethinks the classic question of what, how and for whom economics is produced. Drawing from a range of perspectives it casts fresh light on the relationship between the producers and consumers of economic knowledge.

List of Illustrations

vii

Notes on contributors

viii

Preface

Acknowledgments

xii

Economics of Knowledge: old and new

(16)

Robert F. Garnett, Jr

PART I Academic versus ersatz economics

(84)

The transgressive knowledge of ``ersatz'' economics

(18)

Jack Amariglio

David F. Ruccio

Look at me look at you

(23)

Judith Mehta

Jack, David, and Judith looking at me looking at them

(5)

Deirdre Mccloskey

The crowding out of academic economics: the case of NAFTA

(21)

Arjo Klamer

Jennifer Meehan

Bridging the gap between the public's and the economists' views of the economy

(15)

Robert J. Blendon

John M. Benson

Mollyann Brodie

Richard Morin

Drew E. Altman

Daniel Gitterman

Mario Brossard

Matt James

PART II It's not all academic

101

(52)

Economic knowledge, professional authority, and the state: the case of American economics during and after World War II

103

(21)

Micheal A. Bernstein

Foundations and economic knowledge

124

(15)

Radhika Balakrishnan

Caren Grown

Can there be genre difference in economic literature?

139

(14)

Suzanne Bergeron

Bruce Pietrykowski

PART III Reconstructing the academic conversation

153

(38)

Postmodernism and identity conditions for discourses

155

(14)

John B. Davis

The role of econometrics in the neoclassical research program

169

(22)

James R. Wible

Norman H. Sedgley, III

PART IV Teaching matters

191

(60)

A picture is worth a thousand words

193

(22)

Ulla Grapard

Mandating knowledge: the role of the Advanced Placement exam in secondary economics education

215

(8)

Claire Sproul

Strategy and tactics in the pedagogy of economics: what should be done about neoclassical economics?

223

(13)

Grahame F. Thompson

A working knowledge of economics?

236

(15)

Richard Mcintyre

Index

251

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