Mises Review
Author:
David Gordon
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Is It Rhetoric, Or Is It Nonsense? Mises Review 1, No. 1 (Spring 1995) KNOWLEDGE AND PERSUASION IN ECONOMICS Donald N. McCloskey Cambridge University Press. xviii + 445 pgs. This is a most peculiar book. As a glance at McCloskey’s enormous bibliography suffices to reveal, our author appears to have read everything. And he isn’t faking. As the text