Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/271079 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
QUCEH Working Paper Series No. 23-06
Publisher: 
Queen's University Centre for Economic History (QUCEH), Belfast
Abstract: 
This paper asks whether history should change the way in which economists and economic historians think about populism. We use Müller's definition, according to which populism is 'an exclusionary form of identity politics, which is why it poses a threat to democracy'. We make three historical arguments. First, late 19th century US Populists were not populist. Second, there is no necessary relationship between populism and anti-globalization sentiment. Third, economists have sometimes been on the wrong side of important policy debates involving opponents rightly or wrongly described as populist. History encourages us to avoid an overly simplistic view of populism and its correlates.
Subjects: 
populism
globalization
economists
history
JEL: 
D72
N40
N70
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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