Forged consensus : science, technology, and economic policy in the United States, 1921-1953 /
In this thought-provoking book, David Hart challenges the creation myth of post--World War II federal science and technology policy. According to this myth, the postwar policy sprang full-blown from the mind of Vannevar Bush in the form of Science, the Endless Frontier (1945). Hart puts Bush's...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©1998.
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Colección: | Princeton studies in American politics.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The malleability of American liberalism and the making of public policy
- The Republican ascendancy and the crash: associative undercurrents in a Conservative Era, 1921-1936
- Trial and error: science, technology, and economic policy in the first Roosevelt administration, 1933-1936
- Breaking bottlenecks and blockades: the heyday of reform liberalism, 1937-1940, and its postwar consequences
- Old fights, new accommodations: wartime experiments and the demise of reform liberalism, 1940-1945
- Groping toward management: science, technology, and macro- and microeconomic policy, 1945-1950
- "The crescendo of hideous invention": the national security state comes of age, 1945-1953
- The past in the present: the "hybrid" in the Cold War and beyond.