In case no one's mentioned it, you may wish to read Deirdre McCloskey's book /The Rhetoric of Economics/ or her article of the same title in the Journal of Economic Literature, XXI. John On 2/22/2011 8:08 AM, Huáscar Fialho Pessali wrote: > Hi Alain, > > You may want to check William Milberg's "The Rhetoric of Policy Relevance > in International Economics," Journal of Economic Methodology, Vol. 3, No. > 2, 1996. > > It seems to be that, despite the title, the paper can be informative to > your particular interest. > > Best, > > Huascar -- John C. Médaille/ //A dead thing can go with the stream... Only a living thing can go against it. -G. K. Chesterton// //Toward a Truly Free Market: A Distributist Perspective/ <http://www.amazon.com/Toward-Truly-Free-Market-Distributist/dp/1935191810/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1280082231&sr=1-2>/ //The Vocation of Business: Social Justice in the Marketplace/ <http://www.amazon.com/Vocation-Business-Social-Justice-Marketplace/dp/0826428096/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280082193&sr=8-1>/ //The Distributist Review/ <http://distributistreview.com/mag/>/ //The Front Porch Republic/ <http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/>/ //The Remnant Newspaper/ <http://www.remnantnewspaper.com/index.htm>/ /