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The Cold War and American Science: The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford | 
| Author: Stuart W. Leslie
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 332
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6.3 x 1
ISBN: 0231079591
Dewey Decimal Number: 320
EAN: 9780231079594
ASIN: 0231079591
Publication Date: April 15, 1994
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Overstated case? May 26, 2004
W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3)
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
Perhaps the author is overstating the effects of the alliance between the universities and the Federal government, over defense-related funding for research. Granted, he makes several cogent points about possible dead ends in research, that may have arisen due to an emphasis in finding military relevance. But the US economy was so large and productive during the Cold War, compared to the Soviet Union (and China), that any mis-spent funding was utterly negligible. And even where the research led to a total dead end, perhaps this is obvious only in retrospect. If instead of so much defense funding, the funding had come from other sources, with other aims, then too misdirections and empty results may have arisen. His descriptions of the anti-science demonstrations at MIT and Stanford are interesting. But let's keep some perspective. These were not Berkeley or UWisconsin-Madison. MIT and Stanford were primarily engineering and science oriented, with most students never taking part in overt political activities. While the demonstrations were due to disagreements about the military funding, little tangible resulted.
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