Forged Consensus: Science, Technology, and Economic Policy in the United States, 1921-1953 - Rilegato

Hart, David M.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 069102667X ISBN 13: 9780691026671

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1998

Riassunto

In this thought-provoking book, David Hart challenges the creation myth of post--World War II federal science and technology policy. According to this myth, the postwar policy sprang full-blown from the mind of Vannevar Bush in the form ofScience, the Endless Frontier (1945). Hart puts Bush's efforts in a larger historical and political context, demonstrating in the process that Bush was but one of many contributors to this complex policy and not necessarily the most successful one. Herbert Hoover, Karl Compton, Thurman Arnold, Henry Wallace, Robert Taft, and Curtis LeMay--along with more familiar figures like Bush--are among those whose endeavors he traces.

Hart places these policy entrepreneurs in the broad scheme of American political development, connecting each one's vision of the state in this apparently esoteric policy area to the central issues, events, and figures of mid-century America and to key theoretical debates. Hart's work reveals the wide range of ideas, often in conflict with one another, that underlay what later observers interpreted as a "postwar consensus." In Hart's view, these visions--and the interests and institutions that shape their translation into public policy--form the enduring basis of American politics in this important area. Policymakers today are still grappling with the legacies of the forged consensus.

Su questo libro

Recensione

"A provocative new book. . . . It is a book to read, reread, ponder, and argue about, a major work on political language."--Rhetoric and Public Affairs

Contenuti

	Preface
	Abbreviations
Ch. 1	The Malleability of American Liberalism and the Making of Public Policy	3
Ch. 2	The Republican Ascendancy and the Crash: Associative Undercurrents in a Conservative Era, 1921-1932	30
Ch. 3	Trial and Error: Science, Technology, and Economic Policy in the First Roosevelt Administration, 1933-1936	62
Ch. 4	Breaking Bottlenecks and Blockades: The Heyday of Reform Liberalism, 1937-1940, and Its Postwar Consequences	83
Ch. 5	Old Fights, New Accommodations: Wartime Experiments and the Demise of Reform Liberalism, 1940-1945	117
Ch. 6	Groping toward Management: Science, Technology, and Macro-and Microeconomic Policy, 1945-1950	145
Ch. 7	"The Crescendo of Hideous Invention": The National Security State Comes of Age, 1945-1953	175
Ch. 8	The Past in the Present: The "Hybrid" in the Cold War and Beyond	206
	Bibliography	235
	Index	259

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 069102667X
• ISBN 13: 9780691026671
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 267
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile