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406 Pages
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Routledge
406 Pages
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Routledge
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Americans have become resigned to seeing Congress vote money for porkbarrel projects of all kinds-roads, dams, post offices, military installations-in the districts of influential legislators. In recent years Congress has, almost without public notice, extended this form of vote-buying and pandering into a new domain: science. Where formerly scientific funding proposals were evaluated by outside... Read more
1: Research—The Newest Porkbarrel; 2: The Legacy of Vannevar Bush; 3: People, Funds, Results; 4: Stability of Support; 5: Peer Review; 6: Big Science; 7: Control of Science Content; 8: Control of Scientists; 9: Indirect Costs; 10: Red Tape; 11: Innovativeness; 12: Research as an Entitlement; 13: Fraud; 14: The Economics of Public Choice; 15: R&D Support in the OECD Countries; 16: American Science: Before World War I; 17: American Science: The Inter-War Years; 18: Defense-Sponsored Research; 19: Subsidizing Industry; 20: R&D Tax Credits; 21: Industry Sponsorship of Research; 22: Private Sponsorship of Research; 23: State-Government Sponsorship of Research; 24: Technology Transfer from Federal Labs; 25: Technology Transfer from Universities; 26: Why Should the Government Sponsor Research?; 27: We Need Some New Thinking
Biography
Joseph Martino
