Madmen, Intellectuals, and Academic Scribblers: The Economic Engine of Political Change

Wayne A. Leighton and Edward J. Lopez

A review of Wayne Leighton and Edward Lopez's Madmen, Intellectuals, and Academic Scribblers by Shruti Rajagopalan.

In Madmen, Intellectuals, and Academic Scribblers, authors Wayne Leighton and Edward Lopez provide an economic framework to understand the role of ideas and interests in political change. The title itself borrows from Frederick Hayek. 

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