The strangeness of the discipline
Economics is a conversation or, better, a bunch of conversations
What it takes to be an academic dog, or the culture of the academic conversation
It's the attention, stupid!
A good scientific conversation, or contribution thereto, is truthful and meaningful and serves certain interests
The art of economic persuasion: about rhetoric and all that
Why disagreements among economists persist, why economists need to brace themselves for differences withing their simultaneous conversations and their conversations over time, and why they may benefit from knowing about classicism, modernism, and postmodernism
How and why everyday conversations differ from academic ones and how and why academic conversations clash with political ones.
