Table of Contents.- Preface.- Chapter 1: Introduction: Experts and Consensus in Social Science; Marcel Boumans and Carlo Martini.- SECTION 1: Consensus in Practice.- Chapter 2:
The institutional economics of stakeholder consultation; how experts can contribute to reduce the costs of reaching compromise agreements; Frank A.G. den Butter and Sjoerd A. ten Wolde.- Chapter 3: Model-Based Consensus; Marcel Boumans.- Chapter 4: Explicating ways of consensus-making in science and society: distinguishing the academic, the interface and the meta-consensus; Laszlo Kosolosky and Jeroen Van Bouwel.- SECTION 2: Frameworks of Consensus.- Chapter 5: Judgments About the Relevance of Evidence in the Context of Peer Disagreements and Practical Rationality; Amir Konigsberg.- Seeking consensus in the social sciences; Carlo Martini.- Chapter 7: Struggling Over the Soul of Economics: Objectivity versus Expertise: Julian Reiss.- SECTION 3: Attributing Standards of Expertise.- Chapter 8: Epistemology as a Social Science: Applying the Neyman-Rubin Model to Explain Expert Beliefs; Aviezer Tucker.- Chapter 9: The Expert Economist in Times of Uncertainty; Maria Jimenez-Buedo.- Chapter 10: Validating Expert Judgment with the Classical Model; Roger M. Cooke.- Chapter 11:The Truth About Accuracy; F. Buekens and F. Truyen.- SECTION 4: The Democratic Dimension.- Chapter 12: Expert Advisers: Why Economic Forecasters Can Be Useful Even When They are Wrong; Robert Evans.- Chapter 13: The Role of Experts in the Condominium Model as Republican (Re-) Solution of Social, Economic, and Political Problems.- Chapter 14: Private Epistemic Virtue, Public Vices: Moral Responsibility in the Policy Sciences; Merel Lefevere and Eric Schliesser.
