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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hart, David M., 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1998.
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.