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.



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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