{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "What have you got on why sociologists disappeared as public intellectuals influencing the culture while economists exploded in...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/186649505603/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: <p>What have you got on why sociologists disappeared as public intellectuals influencing the culture while economists exploded in importance? Riffing on Fabio Rojas on orgtheory | should sociologists copy economists? no, but we could certainly learn from them</p></div>\n<p>Well there was a direct and concerted effort with a good deal of conservative baron money behind it \u2013 Koch, Scaife, Coors, Olin \u2013 to promote the Chicago School economists as the master-discipline of America, and to organize them as a policy force. </p><p>Think tanks, conference circuits, influence networks to get their work (or work with their name on it) into friendly media, endowing \u201claw and economics\u201d chairs at law schools as almost a right-equivalent to the \u201ccrits\u201d then emerging organically from academic culture and analyzing law as a site of power-deployment and policy-making</p>"}