Economists in Politics

29 Aug 2015 13:54

A special case of intellectuals in politics, though they don't like to hear it.

Dean Baker, "Trade and inequality: The role of economists", Real-World Economics Review 45 (2008)
Robert Driskill, "Deconstructing the Argument for Free Trade: A Case Study of the Role of Economists in Policy Debates", Economics and Philosophy 28 (2012): 1--30 [PDF preprint[
William Easterly, The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics
Robert Heilbroner, The Worldly Philosophers
Zubin Jelveh, Bruce Kogut and Suresh Naidu, "Political Language in Economics", ssrn/2535453
Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation
John Quiggin, Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us
Dani Rodrik, "When Ideas Trump Interests: Preferences, Worldviews, and Policy Innovations", Journal of Economic Perspectives 28 (2014): 189--208