First edition. 8vo. xx, 209, [3] pp. Original green cloth, spine lettered in black, dust jacket (neat ownership inscription ‘Engerman’ in red to front free endpaper, else contents clean; wear to extremities of dust jacket, gentle fading to spine panel with small loss at head, else a very good copy indeed). Wisconsin, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1985.
From the library American economist Stanley Engerman (1936-2023), best known for his collaboration with Nobel Prize winning economist Robert Fogel.
The present text posits that economists have far more influence through their rhetoric than through their data and scientific method. As such, a more candid approach to their rhetoric would be the greatest gift that economists could give to their discipline.
