A political science manifesto for the age of populism : challenging growth, markets, inequality and resentment / David M. Ricci.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ricci, David M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Populism--United States--History--21st century.

Populism.

United States--Politics and government--21st century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 245 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

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 - namely, mass economic and creative destruction: automation, outsourcing, deindustrialization, globalization, privatization, financialization, digitalization, and the rise of temporary jobs - all breeding resentment. Rather than dwelling on symptoms, Ricci focuses on the root of our nation's problems. Thus, creative destruction, aiming at perpetual economic growth, encouraged by neoliberalism, creates the economic inequality that fuels resentment and leads to increased populism. Ricci urges political scientists to highlight this destruction meaningfully and substantively, to use empirical realism to put human beings back into politics. Ricci's sensible argument conveys a sense of political urgency, grappling with real-world problems and working to transform abstract speculations into tangible, useful tools. The result is a passionate book, important not only to political scientists, but to an

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title page

Copyright information

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

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

Ideology

Political Consequences

Public Goods

Democracy

The Middle Class

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

Name Index

Subject Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Feb 2020).

ISBN:

9781108808095

1108808093

9781108804172

1108804179

9781108785440

1108785441

OCLC:

1155326041

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access