Idea Brokers: Think Tanks And The Rise Of The New Policy Elite - Softcover

Smith, James A.

 
9780029295557: Idea Brokers: Think Tanks And The Rise Of The New Policy Elite
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0029295556 ISBN 13: 9780029295557
Verlag: Free Press, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

From Simon & Schuster, The Idea Brokers is James A. Smith's exploration of think tanks and the rise of the new policy elite.

Tracing the rise of the think tank from the turn of the century to the present, historian Smith provides a portrait of this policy elite and concludes that "experts" have preempted the public debate by helping to remove complex issues from the ken of ordinary citizens.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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

Von der hinteren Coverseite

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.

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
Free Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1993
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0029295556
ISBN 13 
9780029295557
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
356
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV, GPSR Europäische Union
info@simonandschuster.nl

Herculesplein 96
Utrecht
3584 AA
Niederlande

Weitere beliebte Ausgaben desselben Titels

9780029295519: The Idea Brokers: Think Tanks and the Rise of the New Policy Elite

Vorgestellte Ausgabe

ISBN 10:  0029295513 ISBN 13:  9780029295519
Verlag: The Free Press, 1991
Hardcover