Our politicians have ever-decreasing legitimacy, our financiers - their huge corporate risks underwritten by the taxpayer - are literally and morally bankrupt. This title traces how, historically, political and intellectual elites constructed a deeply ambiguous idea of the public, one designed to serve their own ends and preserve the status quo.
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Dan Hind was a publisher for ten years. in 2009 he left the industry to develop a program of media reform centered on public commissioning. His journalism has appeared in the Guardian, the New Scientist, Lobster and the Times Literary Supplement. His books include The Threat to Reason and The Return of the Public. He lives in London.
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Our politicians have ever-decreasing legitimacy, our financiers - their huge corporate risks underwritten by the taxpayer - are literally and morally bankrupt. This title traces how, historically, political and intellectual elites constructed a deeply ambiguous idea of the public, one designed to serve their own ends and preserve the status quo.