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Except for the modest proposals that I gave at the end of Chapter 7, I have dealt so far with the question, what happened? I must now ask, what can we do about it? In support of research? In education? And in consummation of a technological change beyond the power of the private sector to achieve?
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Suggested reading on prizes for scientific work
Gordon Tullock, The Organization of Inquiry, Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, 1966, pp. 195–227.
Suggested reading on the widening of connoisseur ship for science
A. Truman Schwartz, “Humanizing the Scientist and Simonizing the Humanist,” Chemtech, January 1985, pp. 12-17.
Pregnant with suggestions for bringing more history and social context into the teaching of science — also for seminars promoting dialog between C.P. Snow’s “Two Cultures.”
Recommended reading on management of technological change
Christopher Layton, Ten Innovations, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London, 1972.
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Squires, A.M. (1986). The Fat and Far … the Lean and Near. In: The Tender Ship. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1926-0_11
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