Just after the close of World War II, America's political and scientific leaders reached an informal consensus on how science could best serve the nation and how government might best support science. The consensus lasted a generation before it broke under the pressures created by the Vietnam War. Since then the nation has struggled to reestablish shared beliefs about the means and goals of science policy. In American Science Policy Since World War II, author Bruce L. R. Smith makes sense of the break between science and government and identifies the patterns on postwar science affairs. He explains that what might otherwise seem to be a miscellaneous set of separate episodes actually constituted a continuing debate of national importance that was closely linked to broad political and economic trends. Smith's precise and unique analysis gives both the scholar and historian a better understanding of where we are and how we got there while casting a modest light on future policy directions.

Microwave Communications (Health Professions Division Pretest)

Business & Money

Smith, Bruce L.R.

Hund, Edgar

Hund, E

Economics

McGraw-Hill Companies

The new political economy: The public use of the private sector

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Macmillan

The New Political Economy: The Public Use of the Private Sector,

John Wiley&Sons

Smith: Rand Corporation Case Study

Harvard University Press

The RAND Corporation: Case Study of a Nonprofit Advisory Corporation (Harvard Political Studies, 10)

After World War II, American statesman and scholar Lincoln Gordon emerged as one of the key players in the reconstruction of Europe. During his long career, Gordon worked as an aide to National Security Adviser Averill Harriman in President Truman's administration; for President John F. Kennedy as an author of the Alliance for Progress and as an adviser on Latin American policy; and for President Lyndon B. Johnson as assistant secretary of state. Gordon also served as the United States ambassador to Brazil under both Kennedy and Johnson. Outside the political sphere, he devoted his considerable talents to academia as a professor at Harvard University, as a scholar at the Brookings Institution, and as president at Johns Hopkins University. In this impressive biography, Bruce L. R. Smith examines Gordon's substantial contributions to U.S. mobilization during the Second World War, Europe's postwar economic recovery, the security framework for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and U.S. policy in Latin America. He also highlights the vital efforts of the advisers who helped Gordon plan NATO's force expansion and implement America's dominant foreign policy favoring free trade, free markets, and free political institutions. Smith, who worked with Gordon at the Brookings Institution, explores the statesman-scholar's virtues as well as his flaws, and his study is strengthened by insights drawn from his personal connection to his subject. In many ways, Gordon's life and career embodied Cold War America and the way in which the nation's institutions evolved to manage the twentieth century's vast changes. Smith adeptly shows how this "wise man" personified both America's postwar optimism and as its dawning realization of its own fallibility during the Vietnam era.

Lincoln Gordon: Architect of Cold War Foreign Policy (Studies In Conflict Diplomacy Peace)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

University Press of Kentucky

PARTIAL list of contents: A Transformation in Central America?; Strengthening Democratic Institutions; The Challenges for Democratization and Stability in the Emerging Poliarchies; Strategies for Economic Development; The Role of the Private Sector in Economic Development; and, Unequal Partners: Relations between the Government and the Military.

The Next Steps in Central America (Brookings Dialogues on Public Policy)

History

Americas

Brookings Inst Pr

Looks at the history of government involvement in science, explains how scientific research is applied towards national goals, and suggests ways to revitalize national research

American Science Policy Since World War II

Science & Math

History & Philosophy

Nineteen experts grapple with the major issues confronting the nation in ensuring continued U.S. leadership in biomedical research and, at the same time, in achieving the fullest possible social benefits from this research. The authors explore the prospects for government support of biomedical research in an era of federal downsizing, the merits of funding disease-based research and untargeted basic research, the promise and challenges of the growing alliance in research between universities and corporations, and the granting of intellectual property rights for publicly funded research.

The Future of Biomedical Research

Engineering & Transportation

De barfield, Clau E.

Engineering

AEI Press

The State of Academic Science, Vol. 2

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Routledge

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