Expertise and the nature of social knowledge

Abstract

The article examines the problem of academic knowledge reception among policy-­makers and business elites, taking into account such aspects of this knowledge as analytical-­descriptive, applied and critical. The concept of moral economies is discussed, the differences in which, in the author’s opinion, lead to the communication problems between researchers or experts, on the one hand, and the end users expertise, on the other. The author provides some examples of moral economies operating in various disciplinary communities.