TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aune,James Arnt
TI  - Selling the free market: the rhetoric of economic correctness 
T2  - Revisioning rhetoric
SN  - 1572305983
AV  - HB95. A94 2001
U1  - 330.1220973 
PY  - 2001///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Guilford Press
KW  - Free enterprise
KW  - United States
KW  - Social choice
KW  - Libertarianism
N1  - 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 --; Part I; Rhetoric, Economics, and Problems of Method --; Chapter 1; The Rhetoric-Economics Connection: Rhetorical Strategies of Economic Analysis --; The Principles of Rational Choic --; Problems with Rational Choice --; Case Study 1; The Minimum Wage --; Case Study 2; The Farm Crisis --; Case Study 3; The Uses of Labor Unions --; Conclusion --; Chapter 2; 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 --; Part II; What Libertarians Want --; Chapter 3; 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 --; Chapter 4; 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 --; Chapter 5; 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 --; Part III; The Struggle over Reagan's Free-Market Legacy --; Chapter 6; 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 --; Chapter 7; 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
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