Date: 2017
Type: Book
The power of economists within the state
Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2017
CHRISTENSEN, Johan, The power of economists within the state, Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2017
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/63311
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Market-oriented reforms have been one of the major political and economic trends of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Yet some countries have embraced them more than others. To help explain this variation, Johan Christensen examines one key influencer: the entrenchment of U.S.-trained, neoclassical economists in state bureaucracies. Christensen uses comparative case studies of New Zealand, Ireland, Norway, and Denmark to show how economists affected each nation's tax policies. He finds that, in countries where economic experts held strategic positions, neoclassical economics broke through with greater force. Drawing on interviews with policy elites, he examines the specific ways in which economists shaped reforms by learning on an activist approach to policymaking and the perceived utility of their science to drive change.
Table of Contents:
-- List of illustrations
-- Acknowledgements
1. Economists and market-conforming reform
2. The new economics and politics of taxation
3. New Zealand : plotting a market-oriented revolution
4. Ireland : populist politics in a generalist system
5. Norway : economic experts in the social-democratic state
6. Denmark : equality before efficiency, politicians before experts
7. The power of economists within the state
-- Appendix: List of Interviews
-- Bibliography
-- Index
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/63311
ISBN: 9781503601857; 9781503600492
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Initial version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/28032
Version: Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2013
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