Selling the Free Market: The Rhetoric of Economic Correctness

Introduction: How the Right Triumphed. Rhetoric, Economics, and Problems of Method. The Rhetoric-Economics Connection: Rhetorical Strategies of Economic Analysis. Economic Rhetoric and the Realist Style (or, There Ain't No Such Thing as a Free Lunch) What Libertarians Want Checking Ayn Rand's Premises, Or, The Revenge of the Nerds. Anarchy, State, and Utopia: A Rhetorical Reading. What Libertarians Want, According to Murray Rothbard and Charles Murray. The Struggle over Reagan's Free Market Legacy. From Reagan to Buchanan: National Glory and Globalization. Newt Gingrich, Cyberpunk, and Globalization. Conclusion: The Market and Human Happiness. An Appendix for Academics: On Deirdre McCloskey's Rhetoric of Economics.