ISBN:
9783962384296
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (335 pages)
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DDC:
306.3
Keywords:
Economics-Sociological aspects
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Work in progress -- List of Contents -- Introduction. Frank Trentmann, Anna Barbara Sum and Manuel Rivera -- The authority of experts - and its dialectic -- The rise and consolidation of experts: state power and 'public service' -- Globalisation and contestation -- Experts vs. experts: scientific disciplines, ideologies, and local contexts -- 'Above politics'? Knowledge and communication in an age of uncertainty -- References -- Learning to Scale: The Case of Victorian Britain. Fredrik Albritton Jonsson -- References -- The Social Life of Energy Futures: Experts, Consumers and Demand in the Golden Age of Modernisation, c. 1900-73. Rebecca Wright and Frank Trentmann -- Pragmatics of forecasting -- Social actors and communities of expertise -- Political ideologies and democratic futures -- Fragmented policy fields -- Users, lifestyles and social values -- Exhibiting futures -- Conclusions -- References -- From American South to Global South: The TVA's Experts and Expertise, 1933-98. Vincent Lagendijk -- Introduction -- Expertise and the TVA -- Transferring ideas and expertise -- TVA expertise and the UN -- TVA expertise and the World Bank -- Conclusion: Cracks in the concrete -- References -- What Makes an Expert? The View from UNRRA, 1943-47. Jessica Reinisch -- Experts and international organisations -- UNRRA's experts -- Expert vs. expert -- Experts and 'technical assistance' -- Conclusion -- References -- Contesting the Official Concept of Progress. John Toye -- Introduction -- Herbert Frankel on the official concept of progress -- C. P. Snow on rich and poor and Leavis's counterblast -- Fritz Schumacher, renegade economist -- The attack on science and experts once again -- The gospel of sustainability -- References -- The Strategy of Expertise: Albert O. Hirschman, Economics and 'Development' in the 1950s. Anna Barbara Sum.
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