Cultures of Expertise and the Public Interventions of Economists

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ID4298043
AuthorsTiago Mata (0000-0002-6423-299X, University of Cambridge), Steven G Medema (0000-0003-4965-880X, University of Cambridge)
Year2013
Volume45
Issuesuppl_1
Pages1-19
Publication date2013-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory of Political Economy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-2702 • E-ISSN: 1527-1919
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00182702-2310926
OpenAlexW2109285941
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited44

The essays in this volume examine the economist as public intellectual. Rather than assessing the changing status of the public intellectual in culture or attempting to define the identity of the public intellectual, our approach is to study the public interventions of economists, that is, the encounters between economists and their publics. In the volume we constrain ourselves to the long twentieth century in the United States and the United Kingdom, fenced at one end by the Progressive Era and Fabianism and the ongoing economic crisis at the other. Economists then and now have been occupants of the public sphere, and to understand their encounters with the public we must appreciate the expectations they bring to the meeting and the institutional contexts that enable the encounters. The unifying claim of our collection is that economists' public interventions have been of profound consequence for both the structure and the content of the public sphere

Identity (music · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Psychological intervention · Public culture · Public health interventions · Public relations · Public sphere · Publics · Sociology · Economic Theory and Institutions · Law · Psychology · Public Administration

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