Selling the Free Market
The Rhetoric of Economic Correctness
James Arnt Aune
Paperback
Paperback
orderFebruary 1, 2002
ISBN 9781572307575
Price: $35.00 217 Pages
Size: 6" x 9"
Copyright Date: 2001
Introduction: How the Right Triumphed
I. Rhetoric, Economics, and Problems of Method
1. The Rhetoric-Economics Connection: Rhetorical Strategies of Economic Analysis
2. Economic Rhetoric and the Realist Style (or, There Ain't No Such Thing as a Free Lunch)
II. What Libertarians Want
3. Checking Ayn Rand's Premises (or, The Revenge of the Nerds)
4. Anarchy, State, and Utopia: A Rhetorical Reading
5. What Libertarians Want, According to Murray Rothbard and Charles Murray
III. The Struggle over Reagan's Free Market Legacy
6. From Reagan to Buchanan: National Glory and Globalization
7. Newt Gingrich, Cyberpunk, and Globalization
*Conclusion: The Market and Human Happiness
*An Appendix for Academics: Deirdre McCloskey's Rhetoric of Economics