The nation's foremost police chief shows how community policing can offer a model for repossessing our cities. Through anecdotes drawn from his own experience, Williams explains what each of us can contribute to taking back our streets, relating to such vital national issues as assault weapons and gang warfare, and discussing the background of ...
Twentieth century philosophy has been dominated by issues concerned with language. These have left few areas of academic enquiry untouched; an awareness of language matters to a discipline because claims to knowledge can be made only by using language. However, economists have only come to recognize the importance of language relatively recently ...
A range of economics writings which runs through the 19th century and beyond, is now largely ignored because its authors were women or because they favoured literary over scientific forms. This work re-examines some of the most interesting texts from within this tradition. The works considered include: stories by Maria Edgeworth and Harriet ...
This volume offers an exciting new reading of John Ruskin's economic and social criticism, based on recent research into rhetoric in economics. Willie Henderson uses notions derived from literary criticism, the rhetorical turn in economics and more conventional approaches to historical economic texts to reevaluate Ruskin's economic and social ...
Adam Smith is well recognized as the forefather of modern economics, but his success can be attributed not only to what he wrote but also to his use of language. In this exciting new book, Willie Henderson shows how Smith engaged creatively in writing about the economy, and analyzes the extent to which he tried to ensure that the reader is drawn ...
Under the impressive editorship of Warren Samuels et al, this book addresses the state of the history of economic thought today. A relevant and important contribution to economics that will develop an unsurprising number of fans.
This volume draws together various strands of research and teaching related to language and economics. The key paper is that of Professor McCloskey, an economist who has criticized the evidence of economics writing in his book "The Rhetoric of Economics". The other papers develop McCloskey's ideas through the application of methods of discourse ...
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