Economists in Politics

29 Mar 2018 11:03

A special case of intellectuals in politics, though nobody likes 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

Mark Blyth
- Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
- Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century
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Transaction-Cost Politics Perspective
Gerard Dumenil and Dominique Levy, The Crisis of Neoliberalism
Marion Fourcade, Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s
Julian Gewirtz, Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China [There is an interesting excerpt on Joan Robinson]
Stephen A. Marglin, The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community
Bradley R. Simpson, Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960--1968