Politicians and Economic Experts

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).

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.

• 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