Rhetoric and economic policy. From: Independent Review | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2005 Independent Institute. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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PITH-SING: Corroborative detail indeed! Corroborative fiddlestick!

--William S. Gilbert, The Mikado

Economists generally accept the chestnut assertion that "economic policy is an art, quite separate from and independent of, the science of economics" (Coddington 1973 [1983], 237; see also McCloskey 1990, 136, quoting Montague 1900). The causes and extent of this dichotomy are seldom considered. By contrast, rhetoricians deny that any ...

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