dc.contributor.author | Holst, Cathrine | |
dc.contributor.author | Molander, Anders | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-01-20T14:55:58Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-04-21T10:07:27Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-01-20T14:55:58Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-04-21T10:07:27Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-11-21 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Holst C, Molander A: Epistemic Worries about Economic Expertise. In: Fossum JE, Batora J. Towards a Segmented European Political Order. The European Union's Post-crises Conundrum, 2019. Routledge | en |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9781138495333 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10642/8468 | |
dc.description.abstract | The focus of the chapter will be on this epistemic worry. We show that the substantive involvement of economic experts in policy-making raises some real epistemic concerns. However, we move beyond the uneasiness that many critics articulate, and present a list of ten discrete claims: (1) that we cannot know who the “real” or “best” economic experts are; (2) that all political decisions, including those on economic policy, have moral dimensions and that there is no moral expertise; (3) that proper economic expertise is only possible under conditions of “normal science” and political “well orderedness”; (4) that economists, like laypeople, make cognitive errors; (5) that economists, representing a particular disciplinary perspective and epistemic cultures, are one-eyed, overstretch their competence and fail to see their own perspective as one of many relevant perspectives; (6) that economists may be influenced by self-interest, or (7) have ideological commitments that bias their judgements; (8) that we cannot be sure that economic experts speak truth to power; (9) that economists often lack the competence (or willingness) to translate their expert knowledge to make it understandable for policy-makers and concerned citizens; and, finally, (10) that economic experts do not understand the logic of politics and lack good political judgement. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Routledge | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Towards a Segmented European Political Order. The European Union's Post-crises Conundrum; | |
dc.rights | This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge/CRC Press in Towards a Segmented European Political Order; The European Union's
Post-crises Conundrum on November 21, 2019, available online:
https://www.routledge.com/Towards-a-Segmented-European-Political-Order-The-European-Unions-Post-crises/Batora-Fossum/p/book/9781138495333 | en |
dc.subject | Epistemic worries | en |
dc.subject | Economic experts | en |
dc.subject | Moral experts | en |
dc.subject | Biases | en |
dc.subject | Economic governance | |
dc.title | Epistemic Worries about Economic Expertise | en |
dc.type | Chapter | en |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.date.updated | 2020-01-20T14:55:58Z | |
dc.description.version | acceptedVersion | en |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1752862 | |
dc.source.isbn | 9781138495333 | |