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Politicians and Economic Experts The Limits of Technocracy.

In recent years politics has seen an increasing role in economic policy-making for a technocracy of experts. How do politicians feel about this and how do they balance their political and ethical aims with economic expertise?

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Killick, Anna
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle Upon Tyne : Agenda Publishing, 2022.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- 1 Do we need more economic experts? -- The need for a new "technocracy"? -- The need for politicians' perspectives on economic experts -- The politicians in this book -- Plan of the book -- Part I Politicians' respect for economists and voters -- 2 Politicians' respect for economists -- The "morality" of politicians' economic goals -- One-quarter of politicians paying scant attention to economists -- Respect for economic experts: perceptions of objectivity -- The usefulness of economic experts 
505 8 |a Declining respect for economists -- Shouldering "responsibility" -- Which economists are respected? -- Conclusion -- 3 Politicians' relationships with voters -- "Understandably" self-interested voters -- Qualified judgements about voters' lack of economic understanding -- The first part of responsiveness: listening to voters -- The second part of responsiveness: "persuading" -- Conclusion -- Part II Ideological and national variations -- 4 The resurgent left's view of economists -- The moral nature of left-wing politicians' economic goals -- European confidence and American timidity 
505 8 |a Attitudes to economists: centre-left "Keynesianism" -- The far left's attention, to heterodox economists only -- The left and calls for technocracy -- Conclusion -- 5 Denmark and Germany: "home-grown" economists -- Denmark: the Scandinavian welfare model -- "Responsible" economic policies: Danish consensus -- Danish attitudes to economists -- Germany -- "Responsible": ordoliberalism -- Respect for ordoliberal economists -- Responsiveness -- Conclusion: the most respectful towards economists -- 6 France: pluralist economics and populist threat 
505 8 |a Diverging ideas about what "responsible" economic ideas are -- The left -- The right -- La République en Marche -- Contestation -- Attitudes to economists -- Relationship between responsibility and responsiveness -- Conclusion -- 7 Inattentive Anglosphere right -- Republican context -- Republicans' communication with voters -- Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act -- Trump's trade policies -- Republicans not respecting economists' authority: partisanship -- British Conservatives -- Conservatives' lack of normativity -- Conservative respect for professional authority -- Conclusion 
505 8 |a 8 Politicians and climate change economists -- Contested and divergent ideas about the economics of the environment -- Marginally affected by environmental concerns -- Environmentally sustainable economic thinking -- Socio-ecological restructuring -- Productivists -- De-growth supporters -- The challenge of communicating -- Conclusion: potential for a settled consensus on the environment? -- Part III Educating voters -- 9 "Educative" politicians rather than technocracy -- Respect for economic expertise -- Diverging ideas at both politician and economist levels 
500 |a Decline in the primacy of economics 
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