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Re: Serious Joke,Seriously "Help!"
John McCreery (jlm@TWICS.COM)
Sat, 26 Oct 1996 09:36:03 +0900
>differences in an academic context vs. a business setting, you might want to
>check it out for its comparative perspective on the use of rhetorical devices
>in [neoclassical] economic theory. The author brings methods of literary
>criticism and textual[drawing strongly from Northrop Frye] to bear on the
>entrepreneurial theories of Knight, Keynes and, of course, Schumpeter:
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>Cosgel, Metin M.
>1996 "Metaphors, Stories, and the Entrepreneur in Economics." History of
>Political Economy 28:1[a serial publ by Duke U Press].
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>Also, for more info on the rhetorical perspective and economics, see Arjo
>Klamer's As If Economists and Their Subjects Were Rational. Seems like
>Klamer, Cosgel and McCloskey are the leaders in this approach so I would
>recommend looking at their other stuff as well; but perhaps you're already
>aware of those sources...
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>As for the business setting, don't know offhand of any
>ethnographic/performance studies of the corporate world, although the
>journalistic (?) wall street narrative "expose" Liar's Poker comes to
>mind...Good luck; your work sounds interesting.
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>later/STW
Thanks for the tips. Have you, by the way, seen Po Bronson's _Bombardiers_?
If you liked _Liar's Poker_, you don't want to miss this one. (Ok, guys,
it's a novel....but it sounds so true...why's that?)
John McCreery
3-206 Mitsusawa HT, 25-2 Miyagaya, Nishi-ku
Yokohama 220, JAPAN
"And the Lord said unto Cyrus, 'Shall the clay say to him who moldest it,
what makest thou? Let the potsherd of the earth speak to the potsherd of
the earth." --An anthropologist's credo
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