Nicholas Kristof writes in the Sunday New York Times about the decline of the public intellectual. “Some of the smartest thinkers on problems at home and around the world are university professors, but most of them just don’t matter in today’s great debates.” As Kristof rightly points out, in many academic disciplines, career success comes exclusively from publications in peer-reviewed journals. Writing and speaking for a popular audience, trying to influence journalists or policymakers, and even using blogs and social media are seen as distractions at best, pandering at worst. Of course, the great scholars of the Austrian tradition never took this position. bastiat.mises.org/2014/02/the-austrian-economist-as-public-intellectual-2/
Posted on: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 23:51:50 +0000
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