"Economic reason: intellectuals and think tanks in the late twentieth century"

Friday 28 June 2013, 1pm
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge

The ECONPUBLIC project is hosting a workshop which will examine
historical change in the public interventions of intellectuals and
think tanks. It is an emerging consensus that public opinion has been
wrestled away from the words and performances of intellectuals to be
increasingly managed and dictated by collectives of intellectuals such
as think tanks and policy institutes. This workshop will review the
state of the art of public history and sociology, and set out
implications for future research on the modes and content of public
economic knowledge.

Programme:
13:00-13:40 - Ben Jackson (University of Oxford)
'New right intellectuals and new right think tanks: the case of the IEA'

13:40-14:20 - Simon Griffiths (Goldsmiths)
'After the counter-revolution: think tanks and the emergence of New Labour'

14:20-15:00 - Philip Mirowski (University of Notre Dame)
'How Neoliberalism is Actualized by its Think Tank Perimeter'

15:00-15:30 - coffee break

15:30-16:10 - Patrick Baert (University of Cambridge)
'Public intellectuals: Transformations in Positioning'

16:10-16:50 - Thomas Medvetz (University of California - San Diego)
'Think Tanks and Cognitive Autonomy: Towards a Nietzschean View'


All welcome but as space is limited please contact us via email at
[log in to unmask] to ensure a seat. There are advance papers
available for circulation to those interested in attending. For
further information, please see:
http://www.econpublic.hps.cam.ac.uk/events/workshop-economic-reason/.