A Political Science Manifesto for the Age of Populism

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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
	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