Political Science Manifesto for the Age of Populism : : challenging growth, markets, inequality, and resentment / / David M. Ricci.
"Populism and authoritarian-populist parties have surged in the 21st century. In the United States, Donald Trump appears to have become the poster president for the surge. David M. Ricci, in this call to arms, thinks Trump is symptomatic of the changes that have caused a crisis among Americans...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : : Cambridge University Press,, 2020. |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 245 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. The Age of Populism. A Compound Proposition ; What is Political Science For? ; A Previous Political Era ; Populism ; Three Responses ; Consulting Great Thinkers ; Neoliberalism 2. The Temple of Science. Scope and Methods ; Procedure and Substance ; Universities ; Multiversities ; The Temple of Science ; The Temple's Roof ; Limitations ; Economics 3. Mainstream Economics. Mainstream Economics ; Mainstream Assumptions ; Methodological Individualism ; Rational Calculations ; Utility ; Self-Interest ; Prices ; The Invisible Hand ; Equilibrium ; Mainstream Teachings ; Gross Domestic Product and Welfare ; Markets and Value ; Economic Growth ; Three Propositions ; The Salience of Economics ; Methodological Individualism ; Voluntary Exchanges ; Academic Imperialism 4. Creative Destruction. Promoting Growth ; Success for Economics ; Cognitive Capture ; An Extra-Scholarly Role ; Creative Destruction ; The Cost Side ; Luddites ; Who is Getting What? ; The Road Not Taken 5. Targeting Neoliberalism. Karl Polanyi ; Targeting Neoliberalism ; What is Neoliberalism? ; Homo Politicus ; Homo Economicus ; Economic Consequences ; The Market-Based Society ; Natural Markets ; Entrepreneurs ; Free Trade ; Shareholders and Stakeholders ; Scarcity ; Economic Growth ; Ideology ; Political Consequences ; Public Goods ; Democracy ; The Middle Class ; Populism ; The Death of Truth ; John Stuart Mill ; 6. Humanism ; The Default Setting ; Humanism ; A New Role ; Against Tyranny ; For Realism ; What Should We Challenge? ; Real People ; Real Markets ; Driverless Cars 7. A Story for Political Science ; Lists and Stories ; A Tale for Political Scientists ; An Immoral Index ; Another Immoral Index ; Hartz's Story ; Where Hartz was Right ; Politics ; Redistribution ; Political Action ; Just Say No? ; George Bernard Shaw
- Notes.