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Opinions | Twilight of the economists? More like twilight of the neoliberals.
Daniel Drezner
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Cecilia Rouse, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, listens at a weekly economic briefing at the White House last week.
This is a column about the possible decline of economists in the marketplace of ideas, so it seems fitting to start it by talking about a political scientist.
Yale University’s Stephen Skowronek has explained the Trump presidency better than other theories (including mine). His theory places Donald Trump in the “disjunctive presidency” bin, the same category as John Quincy Adams and Jimmy Carter: presidents who take office as the exhausted heir of a bankrupt political ideology. These presidencies, by performing so badly, are usually followed by “transformative presidencies” that lead the country in a decidedly different direction. ....

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