Abstract
Social scientists have long been interested in the influence of ideas on government action. In Max Weber's classic formulation, innovative ideas could create new "world images" and fundamentally reshape the terms of struggle among interests. A half century later, John Maynard Keynes, hoping to revolutionize thinking about the government and the economy, made his famous observation that "the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas."
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Government (linguistics)Action (physics)PoliticsPower (physics)Political economyPolitical scienceSociologyEpistemologySocial scienceNeoclassical economicsEconomicsLawPhilosophy
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Margaret Weir
(1992).
Ideas and the politics of bounded innovation.
Cambridge University Press eBooks
, 188-216.
https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511528125.008
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- 10.1017/cbo9780511528125.008