Dear Alain,

You may be interested in having a look at my recent book "Foucault's
Archaeology of Political Economy', where I have analysed Foucault's
Archaeology and how the theories of language can be used to determine the
history of economic thought. In addition to this, there are some
considerations on Smith's writings on the subject.
Although, this is  perhaps not quite what you were searching for, I feel I
should at least mention it, since it may give you some other ideas to
develop upon and I wish you the very best in your endeavour.

My book, should you be interested, is:

Lima, Iara Vigo de. 2010. Foucault's Archaeology of Political Economy.
London  and New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

All the best,
Iara





To develop my inquiry, I am not so much interested in the art of
> persuasion (Smith) or rethorics in economics but in the representation
> of language in economic theory (the raison d'être, or the evolution of
> language(s), etc. especially in Austrian or institutionalist economics.
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> Roger Backhouse <[log in to unmask]> a écrit :
>
>> This is correct, though I would note that the editors were Willie
>> Henderson,
>> Tony Dudley-Evans and myself. It was published by Routledge in 1992.
>>
>> However, it was concerned not with applying economic analysis to
>> language,
>> but with the analysis of economists' language, with many of the papers
>> applying tools taken from the literature on applied linguistics.
>>
>> Roger Backhouse
>>
>> On 21 February 2011 13:44, Jane Sperry <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>>  I think the first book in Tony Lawson's EAST (Economics as Social
>>> theory)
>>> series  for Routledge, back in early 1990s, was called *Economics and
>>> Language.* It was edited by Willie Henderson.  Might be relevant.
>>>
>>> > Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:04:21 +0100
>>> > From: [log in to unmask]
>>> > Subject: [SHOE] economics of language(s)
>>> > To: [log in to unmask]
>>> >
>>> > Dear colleagues,
>>> > during the last decades several scholars have published surveys of an
>>> > emerging field (economics of language). Most of them consider
>>> Marschak's
>>> > 1965 paper as the starting point of the field. Nevertheless to take
>>> only
>>> > two examples some developpements are to be found in Turgot, Smith's
>>> WN
>>> > and Menger. Is anybody aware of studies of an history of the topic
>>> > before 1965? (concerning Menger, I did not find many secondary
>>> > literature except a 1992 paper by Hodgson.
>>> > Thanks for any tips
>>>
>>
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