{"id":1741,"date":"2011-09-23T14:26:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T18:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multiplier-effect.org\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2011-09-23T14:26:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T18:26:23","slug":"history-of-the-think-tank-or-your-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/history-of-the-think-tank-or-your-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the Think Tank (or, Your Fish)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A rollicking saga that involves all sorts of things not normally associated with think tanks &#8211; chickens, pirate radio, retired colonels, Jean Paul Sartre, Screaming Lord Sutch, and at its heart is a dramatic and brutal killing committed by one of the very men who helped bring about the resurgence of the free market in Britain.&#8221;\u00a0 Over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/adamcurtis\/2011\/09\/the_curse_of_tina.html\">BBC<\/a>, Adam Curtis provides an entertaining mini-history of think tanks in the UK \u2014 the &#8220;dealer in second-hand ideas,&#8221; as Hayek allegedly described them.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring this fantastic image of an early pamphlet (easily the best title ever for a political pamphlet, or anything else for that matter):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/files\/2011\/09\/Cheap-Food-League-Pamphlet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1742\" title=\"Cheap Food League Pamphlet\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/files\/2011\/09\/Cheap-Food-League-Pamphlet-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/files\/2011\/09\/Cheap-Food-League-Pamphlet-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/files\/2011\/09\/Cheap-Food-League-Pamphlet.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(hat tip <a href=\"http:\/\/ineteconomics.org\/blog\/inet\">INET<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A rollicking saga that involves all sorts of things not normally associated with think tanks &#8211; chickens, pirate radio, retired colonels, Jean Paul Sartre, Screaming Lord Sutch, and at its heart is a dramatic and brutal killing committed by one of the very men who helped bring about the resurgence of the free market in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1745,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions\/1745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}