Politicians and Economic Experts

The Limits of Technocracy

AvAnna Killick

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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In recent years politics has seen an increasing role in economic policymaking for a technocracy of experts. How do politicians feel about this and how do they balance their political and ethical aims with economic expertise? Anna Killick offers an in-depth study of how politicians engage with economists and economic opinion. Based on interviews with politicians from the main parties in France, Germany, Denmark, the UK and USA, the book highlights the role economic opinion plays in politics and the tension that can arise between democracy and technocracy. Deferring to the experts is shown to be neither viable nor desirable, and that we should trust politicians to take the lead role in solving economic problems.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-11-24
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781788215640

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Anna Killick is a research fellow in the Department of Political Science, University College London. She is the author of Rigged: Understanding "the Economy" in Brexit Britain (2020).

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An insightful and rousing call to turn away from technocracy, which has sowed the seeds of polarization and distrust, to reconnect the economy and democracy through being honest about the contested and moral foundations of economic policymaking. I hope that this book will encourage politicians across the world to engage their citizens in debate about what a good economy in the twenty-first century should look like.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Do we need more economic experts?Part I Politicians’ respect for economists and voters2. Politicians’ respect for economists3. Politicians’ relationships with votersPart II Ideological and national variations4. The resurgent left’s view of economists5. Denmark and Germany: "homegrown" economists6. France: pluralist economics and populist threat7. Inattentive Anglosphere right8. Politicians and climate change economistsPart III Educating voters9. "Educative" politicians rather than technocracyAppendix