The ideas industry

Introduction. The transmogrification

1. Do ideas even matter?

2. How pessimists, partisans, and plutocrats are changing the marketplace of ideas

3. The standard indictment against the academy

4. The disciplines : why economics thrives while political science survives

5. This is not your father's think tank

6. The booming private market for public ideas

7. The promise and perils of intellectual brands

8. Is the ideas industry working?

9. Tweeting ideas : or, the requisite chapter on social media

Conclusion. The Dark Knight theory of the ideas industry.