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The Voice of the Market
Academy glorifies arcane unintelligibility while disdaining impact and audience, writes Nicholas Christoff. "It's much harder to tell whether work is good than whether it's new," says Martha Nussbaum of the University of Chicago. For yet another class of intellectuals, the market is front and center: Dan Dresner calls them thought leaders.
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