Writing the Economy - Activity, Genre and Technology in the World of Banking - Graham Smart
The interplay of discourse genres and economic modelling
Writing the Economy - Activity, Genre and Technology in the World of Banking - Graham Smart
Graham Smart [+]
Carleton University
Description
Topics include: What is the Quarterly Projection Model?; Building, ‘selling,’ and enhancing QPM; What QPM does; QPM as a tool of reasoning; Representing the Bank’s paradigm of the Canadian economy; Enabling research to develop the Bank’s paradigm of the economy; Interpreting economic data; Performing policy analysis; QPM as a tool of intersubjectivity; QPM’s influence on written and spoken discourse; The QPM vernacular; Logical rigour; Constraining the tendency to hedge; Providing a communal standard of logic; Tying reasoning to consensual macroeconomic theory; Encouraging precision; Making reasoning explicit and visible; The White Book; Methodological refl ections: engagement and detachment