Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This article provides a critical analysis of the articles When Ideas Trump Interests: Preferences, Worldviews, and Policy Innovations and Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective through the lens of Applied Political Economy and parametricity criteria. Both articles explore two central lines of inquiry in political economy: interests and ideas, examining their origins and implications within the context of power dynamics and governance. The analysis concludes that elites play a decisive role in shaping societies, either through the promotion of vested interests or systematic omission of policies rooted in innovative ideas.
DOI: 10.29073/jer.v2i2.34
Author: Ana Leite
Institution: Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4407159134