Observers, Commentators, and Persuaders: British Interwar Economists as Public Intellectuals
研究两次世界大战之间英国经济学家如何通过大众出版物参与公共经济讨论，扮演观察者、评论者和说服者的角色，旨在影响经济行为并捍卫正统经济学说。
Many interwar British economists actively engaged in public economic discourse. Any investigation into these popular economic writings forces the historian to appreciate the frailty, novelty, and, most importantly, sheer extent of the material available. Such popular (nonacademic) economic material captured much of the energy and immediacy of contemporary economic forces. This essay focuses on the role that such popular publications played in defining these economists as public intellectuals. Writing against a backdrop of mass unemployment and industrial transformation, many British economists brought the public to the fore of their discussions and adopted the roles of observers, commentators, and persuaders. As a consequence of this, the social purpose that underpinned the public pronouncements of this body of public (economic) intellectuals came to embody two interconnected themes: first, a desire to influence the economic behavior of society, and second, a defense of established economic doctrine against the attacks of spurious, ill-advised, pseudo-economic myths that festered within the public consciousness.