Economics & Finance

In an Age of Experts: The Changing Roles of Professionals in Politics and Public Life

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Price:
$55.00/拢45.00
ISBN:
Published:
Jun 2, 1996
1994
Pages:
288
Size:
6 x 9.25 in.
Illus:
2 line illustrations
Main_subject:
Economics & Finance
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Since the 1960s the number of highly educated professionals in America has grown dramatically. During this time scholars and journalists have described the group as exercising increasing influence over cultural values and public affairs. The rise of this putative 鈥渘ew class鈥 has been greeted with idealistic hope or ideological suspicion on both the right and the left. In an Age of Experts challenges these characterizations, showing that claims about the distinctive politics and values of the professional stratum have been overstated, and that the political preferences of professionals are much more closely linked to those of business owners and executives than has been commonly assumed.