Format:
1 Online-Ressource (361 pages)
ISBN:
9780190264611
Content:
Daniel W. Drezner's The Ideas Industry looks at how we have moved from a world of public intellectuals to today's "thought leaders." Witty and sharply argued, it will reshape our understanding of contemporary intellectual life in America and the West
Content:
Cover -- The Ideas Industry -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I -- Introduction: The Transmogrification -- 1. Do Ideas Even Matter? -- 2. How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats Are Changing the Marketplace of Ideas -- Part II -- 3. The Standard Indictment Against the Academy -- 4. The Disciplines: Why Economics Thrives While Political Science Survives -- 5. This Is Not Your Father's Think Tank -- 6. The Booming Private Market for Public Ideas -- Part III -- 7. The Promise and Perils of Intellectual Brands -- 8. Is the Ideas Industry Working? -- 9. Tweeting Ideas: Or, the Requisite Chapter on Social Media -- Conclusion: The Dark Knight Theory of the Ideas Industry -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780190264604
Additional Edition:
Print version Drezner, Daniel The Ideas Industry Oxford : Oxford University Press,c2017
Language:
English