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 Templeβs 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
Hartzβs Story
Where Hartz was Right
Politics
Redistribution
Political Action
Just Say No?
George Bernard Shaw
Notes
Preface
1 The Age of Populism
2 The Temple of Science
3 Mainstream Economics
4 Creative Destruction
5 Targeting Neoliberalism
6 Humanism
7 A Story for Political Science
Name Index
Subject Index
