From Simon & Schuster, The Idea Brokers is James A. Smith's exploration of think tanks and
the rise of the new policy elite. Tracing the rise of the think tank from the turn of the century to …

The men of [the] Brookings [Institution] did it by analysis, by painstaking research, by
objective writing, by an imagination that questioned the “going” way of doing things, and …

Public policy research institutes are a twentieth-century phenomenon and in many ways
unique to the United States. Rooted in the social sciences and supported by private …

The Fifth Estate: Think Tanks, Public Policy, and Governance is a comprehensive look at
think tanks and the important role they play in shaping public policy and public discourse in …

This volume chronicles and analyzes the development of think tanks and public policy
research organizations, while exploring the impact think tanks have on politics, public …

Washington think tanks such as the Brookings Institution, the American Enterprise Institute,
and the Heritage Foundation have become so large and influential in recent years that they …

Economists and political observers in recent years have bemoaned the decline of American
competitiveness in traditional industries such as steel, automobiles, and textiles. Some of …

Few issues are more central to our present predicaments than the relationship between
economics and politics. In the century after Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations the British …

Murray Weidenbaum has been a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the
Center for Strategic and International Studies, a speaker at meetings at the Brookings …

Think tanks are proliferating. Although they are outside of government, many of these policy
research institutes are perceived to influence political thinking and public policy. This book …