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Liberty and research and development : science funding in a free society / edited by Tibor R. Machan.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Hoover Institution Press publication ; 506
- Philosophic reflections on a free society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Federal aid to research--United States.
- Federal aid to research.
- Research--Finance.
- Research.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (140 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The contributors to this volume explore the implications of government funding of scientific research and offer alternatives to the heavy reliance on government support that research and development (R&D) currently enjoys. Each author squarely confronts the problems arising from the idea that government funding of R&D is and ought to be the norm.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Some skeptical reflections on research and development / Tibor R. Machan
- Arguments concerning government's investment in research / Oliver Mayo
- The limits of government-funded research: what should they be? / R. Paul Drake
- Federal support of research and development in science and engineering / Michael W. Blasgen
- Scientific research in a free society: some reflections / Eleftheria Maratos-Flier.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8179-2948-7
- OCLC:
- 864414584
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