Week 2

January 22, 2008 - U.S. Science Policy in Historical Perspective

Articles

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

Guston, D. H. and Keniston, K. 1994. Introduction: The social contract for science. In: The Fragile Contract: University Science and the Federal Government. Guston, D.H. and Keniston, K., Eds. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 1-41

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)

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

Text

Stokes, Pasteur’s Quadrant, Chapters 1 & 2

Optional

Vannevar Bush.July 1945. Science the Endless Frontier, A Report to the President, at: http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/nsf50/vbush1945.htm

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

Brown, G.E. Minority Leader, US House Science Committee (Response to Ehlers) http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/199901/future.cfm