The Idea Brokers : Think Tanks and the Rise of the New Policy Elite Paperback - 1993
by James A. Smith
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- Title The Idea Brokers : Think Tanks and the Rise of the New Policy Elite
- Author James A. Smith
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 356
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Free Press, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1993
- Features Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0029295556I5N00
- ISBN 9780029295557 / 0029295556
- Weight 1.11 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9.25 x 6.21 x 0.92 in (23.50 x 15.77 x 2.34 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 90039735
- Dewey Decimal Code 353.093
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Gulliver thought the professors were out of their senses when he visited the Grand Academy of Lagado on the Isle of Balnibarbi. He was bemused by their many improbable schemes--extracting sunbeams from cucumbers, constructing houses from the rood down, and training pigs to plow with their snouts. Yet however bold and inventive the various projects and their 'projectors' (as he termed the scientists were, there remained something troubling about his visit to the academy, something fundamentally deficient about the experts and their ideas.