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For him 'any rule-bound methodology is objectionable'. Instead he offers RHETORIC. Forget the notions of truth and falsehood; such ideas are archaic and metaphysical. What matters, and all that matters, is that a statement be accepted. For that, one must persuade, and hence must master rhetoric, which is the art of persuasion. Whatever other objections we might have to McClosky's arguments, we can agree, regarding science as a system of discourse, that 'good science is good conversation'. It is not at all clear however that McClosky's purpose is to improve and raise that level of conversation.

Thus the Institutionalist School of John R. Commons brings into account the effects of the law as the context of transaction in the determination of economic event. Or the so-called organizational theorists like Herbert Simon who try to explain the organizational choice in modem corporate enterprise in contrast to the individualized entrepreneurial choice assumed in the mainstream paradigm, where choice is assumed to operate within the frame of the proprietary firm with control based on ownership.

With Say's Law it predicted exactly the opposite. The severity of these periodic visitations increased through the mid-nineteenth and into the twentieth century, culminating in the Great Depression of the 1930s. scale catastrophe toppled Germany and Italy into Fascism and threatened the viability of capitalism throughout the world. Sustained mass unemployment could no longer be brushed aside as a frictional, incidental, passing deviation from the norm, but had to be recognized as a massive falsification of the theory; or at least proof positive of NeoClassical theory's irrelevance to the great problem of the twentieth century.

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