27 September, Thursday, “How to Buy, Sell, Make, Manage, Produce, Transact, Consume with Words,” for the Law, Economics, and Organization Workshop at the Yale Law School from 4:10 to 5:40 p.m. Contact Henry Smith at the Law School

On the agenda for Tuesday, Copenhagen Business School, “Bubbles, Gluts, and Demand Curves: How to Get Sophisticated About the Rhetoric of Real Estate Studies” and “The Scandal of Statistical Significance in Psychology, Medical Science, and Economics”

ESADE in Barcelona, on the rhetoric of management

The “lovely bit of writing” refers to Deirdre’s recent “Prudence, you no longer rule my world,” Times Higher Education, 14 January 2010. View original entry of 8 February 2010 at Jim Aune’s site.

Esi/Ifree Lecture Friday, Mar 12 3:00p Wilkinson Hall, Orange, CA View detailed agenda

The Journal staff found this excerpt from Charles K. Wilber’s Ethics In Economic Theory (Post Autistic Economics Review #20, 3 June 2003): “The defense of value-neutrality still stands, but the pillars have been shaken. Blaug conceded that both ‘factual’ and ‘moral’ arguments rest ‘at bottom’ on certain definite techniques of persuasion, which in turn depend (more…)

**Project: fix, 3 days: The chapter is very raw and confused at present. The elite continued to sneer at the bourgeoisie. It is by now widely realized that the sixteenth-century in Europe, with its increasingly literate and even rhetorically cultivated elite, came to view the keeping and finding out of secrets as a suitable occupation (more…)

***the chapter is too long now; split when finished Rhetoric might ride as a little wave of talk upon deeper currents of biology or interest or the means of production. Much of social science and history for most of the twentieth century assumed so. I don’t think the assumption was correct. I don’t think it (more…)