Idea Brokers Think Tanks And The Rise Of The

Gulliver thought the professors were out of their senses when he visited the Grand Academy of Lagado on the Isle of Balnibarbi. He was bemused by their many improbable schemes--extracting sunbeams from cucumbers, constructing houses from the rood down, and training pigs to plow with their snouts. Yet however bold and inventive the various projects and their 'projectors' (as he termed the scientists were, there remained something troubling about his visit to the academy, something fundamentally deficient about the experts and their ideas.

James A. Smith is the author of Idea Brokers, a Simon & Schuster book.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Prologue	p. xi
The Policy Elite	p. 1
Laboratories for Reform	p. 24
Efficiency Experts	p. 46
Experts Advising	p. 73
Technocratic Faiths	p. 98
Action Intellectuals	p. 122
At the Limits of Liberalism	p. 146
The Ideological Divide	p. 167
The Marketplace of Ideas	p. 190
The Politics of Ideas	p. 214
Notes	p. 241
Think Tank Directory	p. 270
Bibliographic Essay	p. 311
Index	p. 315
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Idea Brokers Think Tanks And The Rise Of The New Policy Elite

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