The ideas industry
By: Daniel W. Drezner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780190264604
Subjects: Learning and scholarship; Sociology of Knowledge; Research institutes; Intellectuals; Intellectual life; Political aspects; Political activity
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-330) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. The transmogrification; title: 1. Do ideas even matter?; title: 2. How pessimists, partisans, and plutocrats are changing the marketplace of ideas; title: 3. The standard indictment against the academy; title: 4. The disciplines : why economics thrives while political science survives; title: 5. This is not your father's think tank; title: 6. The booming private market for public ideas; title: 7. The promise and perils of intellectual brands; title: 8. Is the ideas industry working?; title: 9. Tweeting ideas : or, the requisite chapter on social media; title: Conclusion. The Dark Knight theory of the ideas industry.