Big ideas can be bad ideas – even in the age of the thinktank | Mark Mazower

<IMG alt="US Capitol building in Washington" src="http://pakedu.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/wpid-US-Capitol-building-in-Wa-012.jpg" width=460 height=276 itemprop="contentUrl representativeOfPage"> 'In Washington yesterday’s professor or analyst is often today’s presidential appointee.' Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images<P>First there was Francis Fukuyama's The End of History. More recently, we had Malcolm Gladwell's The

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