Dan Drezner on "The Ideas Industry"

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🗓️ 17 June 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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This week, the Lawfare Podcast brings you Jack Goldsmith's interview with Dan Drezner at the Hoover Book Soirée about Drezner's new book, The Ideas Industry: How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats are Transforming the Marketplace of Ideas. The conversation covers how polarization, inequality, and mistrust are changing the way ideas influence policy and public opinion.

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1:26.0	They have one big idea that they can explain everything.
1:30.0	Now, a marketplace baguette has a rough proportion of these two works well.
1:34.0	But if the marketplace baguette is dominated by public and intellectual,
1:38.0	then the various entry rates you'll call them.
1:40.0	It comes tough for someone new to introduce a new idea.
1:42.0	And as a result, the marketplace gets stagnant and that's bad.
1:46.0	If, on the other hand, there are a lot of thought leaders and not enough public and intellectuals,
1:50.0	you might have a vibrant, stimulating marketplace baguette.
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