Politicians and Economic Experts The Limits of Technocracy.

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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.
Temas:
Economic policy > Cross-cultural studies.
Technocracy.
Specialists.
Politique économique > Études transculturelles.
Technocratie.
Spécialistes.
Economic policy
Specialists
Technocracy
Cross-cultural studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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