The Ideas Industry
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Format: Book
Description: xi, 344 pages ; 25 cm
"Daniel W. Drezner's The Ideas Industry traces the trajectory of the public intellectual from the early 20th century to its present form of the "thought leader." It will reshape our understanding of contemporary public intellectual life in America and the West"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: The Transmogrification -- Chapter 1: Do Ideas Even Matter? -- Chapter 2: How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats are Changing the Marketplace of Ideas -- Chapter 3: The Standard Indictment Against the Academy -- Chapter 4: The Disciplines: Why Economics Thrives While Political Science Survives -- Chapter 5: This is Not Your Father's Think Tank -- Chapter 6: The Booming Private Market for Public Ideas.
Subjects:
Intellectual life -- Political aspects.
Intellectuals -- Political activity.
Learning and scholarship -- Political aspects.
Research institutes -- Political aspects.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Intellectual life -- Political aspects.
Intellectuals -- Political activity.
Learning and scholarship -- Political aspects.
Research institutes -- Political aspects.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
ISBN:
9780190264604 (hardback)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
GOV Politics Dre | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-330) and index.