Birth of Economic Rhetoric

Estrella Trincado  is Professor of Economic History and History of Economic Thought at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. Her research interests specialise in the history of economic thought in general and in classical economics in particular. In 2011 she won the Young Scholar of the Year award presented at the European Society for the History of Economic Thought(ESHET). Estrella is an author of books and has contributed to book chapters and a number of papers published in international journals.

• 1. The Setting of the Play.- 2. Hume and Smith: Truth and Experience.- 3. David Hume.- 4. Adam Smith.- 5. Rhetoric in Hume and Smith.- 6. Consequences for Economic Theory.- 7. Conclusion.