In recent decades, a collection of economists, including Deirdre McCloskey, Arjo Klamer and Diana Strassmann, have given considerable attention to writer-reader (or speaker-listener) relations. These economists have resisted the dominant image of language in economics, namely that of a transparent tool that a writer (or speaker) uses in communicating ideas to a reader (or listener). They invite the adoption of an image of language as a medium for constituting and reconstituting relations. Economists are storytellers and, as such, composers of selves and audiences and relations between them.
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