Table of Contents

Introduction. 1. How economics should be (a) Experts wish to project unanimity (b) Is scientists’ authority legitimate? (c) Science from the crooked wood of humankind (d) Economists as human beings (e) How to regain trust 2. What economics is (a) Economics has both grown and narrowed (b) Are there a mainstream and a heterodox economics? (c) Why mainstream pluralism is not enough (d) Is mainstream economics “neoliberal”? (e) Economics is too hierarchical 3. What economics could become (a) A global phenomenon (b) Bias and discrimination in research evaluation (c) The trouble with citation metrics (d) Consequences of research evaluation in economics (e) Conclusions: economics at a crossroads

About the Author

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).