Selling the free market : the rhetoric of economic correctness /
James Arnt Aune.
- xiv, 217 pages ; 24 cm.
- Revisioning rhetoric .
- Revisioning rhetoric. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-207) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: How the Right Triumphed -- The "Nonexecutive" Summary -- How the Right Triumphed -- The Origins of the American Right -- An Overview of Free-Market Rhetoric -- The Outline of This Volume -- Rhetoric, Economics, and Problems of Method -- The Rhetoric-Economics Connection: Rhetorical Strategies of Economic Analysis -- The Principles of Rational Choic -- Problems with Rational Choice -- The Minimum Wage -- The Farm Crisis -- The Uses of Labor Unions -- Conclusion -- Economic Rhetoric and the Realist Style (or, There Ain't No Such Thing as a Free Lunch) -- The No-Nonsense Nature of the Realist Style -- Public Choice Theory versus Democracy -- A Posnerian Theory of Rhetoric -- Information Costs versus Social and Political Norms -- Conclusion -- What Libertarians Want -- Checking Ayn Rand's Premises (or, The Revenge of the Nerds) -- If You Always Read for the Plot, Please Skip This Section -- Francisco's Money Speech -- "This Is John Galt Speaking" -- Conclusion -- Anarchy, State, and Utopia: A Rhetorical Reading -- Captain's Log: Stardate 13256.8 -- The Rhetoric of Philosophy -- Nozick's Premises: State of Nature, Rights, Autonomy -- Nozick on Rights -- Against the Redistributive State -- Nozick's Utopia (or, A Rhetoric for Libertarians) -- Conclusion -- What Libertarians Want, According to Murray Rothbard and Charles Murray -- Rothbard on the Nature of Individual Liberty -- Rothbard's Policy Prescriptions -- The Question of Strategy 1 -- Charles Murray's Manifesto -- The Question of Strategy 2 -- Conclusion -- The Struggle over Reagan's Free-Market Legacy -- From Reagan to Buchanan: National Glory and Globalization -- Reagan's Rhetoric: The View from Public Address Studies -- The Market versus National Glory -- The Free Market versus Free Trade -- The Federal Reserve Conspiracy Narrative -- Conclusion -- Newt Gingrich, Cyberpunk, and Globalization -- The Strategies of Cyber-Republicans -- Aristocrats Slumming in the Cyberculture -- Bringing "Class" Back In -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: The Market and Human Happiness -- The Political Lessons of Selling the Free Market -- An Appendix for Academics: Deirdre McCloskey's Rhetoric of Economics -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author. Part I. Chapter 1. Case Study 1. Case Study 2. Case Study 3. Chapter 2. Part II. Chapter 3. Chapter 4. Chapter 5. Part III. Chapter 6. Chapter 7.
1572305983 9781572305984
00061696
Free enterprise--United States Social choice--United States Libertarianism--United States