The Rhetoric Approach, Postmodernism, and Pluralism - The Rhetoric Approach
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What is the rhetoric approach?
= Conversation analysis
- Traditional concern: forms and methods of arguments and communication
- Mostly formed by economists about economists
What does the rhetoric approach explore?
2. How scientists try to persuade their colleagues
- Arguments from authority (acknowledgements from big names) signaling
- Advanced mathematics and statistics
- Stories: intuitive justifications of models which lends credibility (analogies, standard stories)
vb: lemon market
- Methaphor: figurative concepts that convey rich associations
vb: invisible hand (Adam Smith)
What is the lemon market?
= approximation of a car market, to keep it simple and to make the message clear (with adverse selection)
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What is the Diamond coconut model?
1. Good equilibrium: everybody knows that there is enough opportunity to get coconuts
2. Bad equlibrium: nobody climbs in the tree to get the coconuts. Everybody thinks this way, no trade no consumption
= coordination failure, self fulfilling prophecy
What is the contemporary rhetoric approach?
- Describes the focus and modern vocabulary
Main concern: the dialogues between economists and scientists
What are the three dimensions of classical rhetoric?
2. Pathos (experience): the appeal to the audience's emotions, sympathies and imagination
3. Ethos (character): the trustworthiness or credibility of the writer or speaker
Which dimension is used by scientists according to positivists?
How does the approach build on the SSK and the ESK?
Adds a psychological aspect
What is the classical rhetoric concept of persuasion?
vb: scientific journals and papers (sharing ideas)
2. The rhetoric approach considers how individual economists or scientists are persuaded within the framework of those structures of communication that are relied upon by a scientific community
vb: readers of papers are more likely to be influenced if the writer is famous
Who was Deirdre McCloskey?
What were the two aims of the work of Deirdre McCloskey?
2. She wants to advance a clear critique of positivsm that she sees as dominating economists' understanding of science and proper method in economics
What is small m and big M methodologies?
Economists are story-tellers: via models to be convincing
Argued that small m methodology is better than big m
- Big M: developed by philosophers of science (who usually don't know a lot about economics) "a good scientist acts this way"
- Small m: basic insights in how economics is actually practiced and some rough practical guidelines (describe) "how stories are made convincing"
How does small M methodology work?
Pluralism: the meaning of words and concepts often depend on the context and may change over time
vb: social welfare
Economics is a conversation, so they need to keep conversation civilized
Why are interviews with economics useful?
Arjo Klamer and David Colander
= context of discovery
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