This paper discusses how wars of ideas can be waged, using the
author's extensive experience, both as director general of the
Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) and at other classical liberal
think tanks. John Blundell begins his stimulating collection of
published essays, reviews and introductions by showing how the
founders of the IEA successfully fought the conventional planning
wisdom of the 1960s and 1970s, providing the ideas which, by the 1980s
and 1990s, had brought about increased freedom and a revival in the
use of markets. He draws lessons from those days and then surveys the
contemporary scene, showing how the anti-liberal ideas emerging now
are different from those which prevailed in the early years of the
IEA. As well as giving a valuable view of the IEAs development in the
past, these essays also offer advice on how to continue winning in the
new circumstances of the present. Waging the War of Ideas has been
constantly in demand since it was first published in 2001. This new
and expanded edition contains three new chapters and is introduced by
Professor Walter Williams.
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ISBN
9780255367004
Published
2015
Edition
4. edition
Publisher
Ingram Publisher Services UK- Academic
Language
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Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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