{"product_id":"a-perilous-progress-economists-and-public-purpose-in-twentiethcentury-america-9780691119670","title":"A Perilous Progress  Economists and Public","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines how a community of experts identified with uncritical celebration of \"free market\" virtues was itself shaped, dramatically so, by government and collective action. This book describes economists' fitful efforts to sway a state apparatus where values and goals could seldom remain separate from means and technique.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Michael A. Bernstein has produced a first-rate analysis of the professionalization of social science. His book is not only a well-informed history of the American economics profession but also an insightful analysis of its relationship with government and a philippic against what Bernstein sees as the profession's recent self-prostitution.\"--Thomas K. McCraw, Journal of American History \"Bernstein details a largely unknown and even unsuspected history of how our professional associations and journals strove from the beginning to engage the important questions, and of how they in the end lost the ability to do so.\"--James K. Galbraith, The Washington Monthly \"This book is an impressive achievement.\"--William J. Barber, EH.Net\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations ix  A Note on the Notes xi  Prologue. Being Ignored 1  Introduction. Professional Expertise as a Historical Problem 7  1. Shaping an Authoritative Community 15  2. Prospects, Puzzles, and Predicaments 40  3. The Mobilization of Resources and Vice Versa 73  4. On Behalf of the National Security State 91  5. Statecraft and Its Retainers 115  6. Statecraft and Its Discontents 148  Epilogue. Being Ignored (Reprise) 185  Notes 195  Bibliography and Reference Abbreviations 291  Acknowledgments 343  Index 347","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359105810775,"sku":"9780691119670","price":36.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691119670.jpg?v=1754123609","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-perilous-progress-economists-and-public-purpose-in-twentiethcentury-america-9780691119670","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}