1st Edition
Democratizing the Economics Debate Pluralism and Research Evaluation
Introduction
1. How economics should be
Experts wish to project unanimity
Is scientists’ authority legitimate?
Science from the crooked wood of humankind
Economists as human beings
How to regain trust
2. What economics is
Economics has both grown and narrowed
Are there a mainstream and a heterodox economics?
Why mainstream pluralism is not enough
Is mainstream economics “neoliberal”?
Economics is too hierarchical
3. What economics could become
A global phenomenon
Bias and discrimination in research evaluation
The trouble with citation metrics
Consequences of research evaluation in economics
Conclusions: economics at a crossroads
Biography
Carlo D’Ippoliti is Associate Professor of Political Economy at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, and editor of PSL Quarterly Review. He is the author of Economics and Diversity (Routledge, 2011) and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics (Routledge, 2017).
"I strongly recommend this book to mainstream and heterodox economists alike, as an invitation to appreciate arguments based on impressive quantitative investigation and a balanced, but earnest call for improvement in the way our “dismal science” is practiced and evaluated."
Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
