Economics in the human conversation / Arjo Klamer and Donald N. McCloskey -- Comments from outside economics / Stanley Fish -- Comments from inside economics / Robert M. Solow -- Rhetoric and ideology / Robert L. Heilbroner -- Marxian theory and the rhetorics of economics / Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff -- Economic rhetoric : the social and historical context / A.W. Coats -- The ideas of economists / Robert W. Clower -- Should a scientist abstain from metaphor? / Cristina Bicchieri -- Shall I compare thee to a Minkowski-Ricardo-Leontief-Metzler matrix of the Mosak-Hicks type? : or, rhetoric, mathematics, and the nature of neoclassical economic theory / Philip Mirowski -- On the brittleness of the orange equilibrium / E. Roy Weintraub. The significance of significance : rhetorical aspects of statistical hypothesis testing in economics / Frank T. Denton -- The rhetoric of self-interest : ideology of gender in economic theory / Nancy Folbre and Heidi Hartmann -- The heterogeneity of the economists' discourse : philosopher, priest, and hired gun / Craufurd D. Goodwin -- The grammar of political economy / James K. Galbraith -- The rhetoric of economics as viewed by a student of politics / Robert O. Keohane -- "Yellow rain" and "supply-side economics" : some rhetoric that failed / David Warsh -- Negotiating a new conversation about economics / Arjo Klamer -- The consequences of rhetoric / Donald N. McCloskey.