Week 7

March 5 - Historical Perspectives on Science Policy

Calvert, J. 2006. What’s Special about Basic Research? Science, Technology & Human Values 31: 199-220.

Polanyi, M., 1967. The Republic of Science, Minerva, 1: 54-73

Nelson, R., 1959. The Simple Economics of Basic Scientific Research, Journal of Political Economy 67: 297-306.

Pielke, Jr., R.A., and R. Byerly, Jr., 1998. Beyond basic and applied, Physics Today, 51(2), 42-46.

Brooks, H. 1995. The Evolution of U.S. Science Policy, in B. Smith and C. Barfield (eds.), Technology, R&D, and the Economy, Washington, DC:  Brookings Institution, p. 15-47.

Optional:

Ehlers, V., 1998. Unlocking Our Future:  Toward a New National Science Policy.

Bush, V., 1945. Science the Endless Frontier, A Report to the President, July 1945.

Kevles, D. 1987. Chapter 21, The Bomb and Postwar Research Policy, and Chapter 22, Victory for Elitism, pp. 325-366 in The Physicists (Cambridge: Harvard University Press).

White, L. T.  1962.  Stirrup, Mounted Shock Combat, Feudalism, and Chivalry, Chapter 1, pp. 1-38, Medieval Technology and Social Change (London:  Oxford University Press).