The Ideas Industry: How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats Are Transforming the Marketplace of Ideas.

by Daniel W. Drezner

Book Overview

The public intellectual, as a person and ideal, has a long and storied history. Writing in venues like the New Republic and Commentary, such intellectuals were always expected to opine on a broad array of topics, from foreign policy to literature to economics. Yet in recent years a new kind of thinker has supplanted that archetype: the thought leader. Equipped with one big idea, thought leaders focus their energies on TED talks rather than highbrow...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190264608
• ISBN13: 9780190264604
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"