Harvey M Sapolsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 249745 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harvey M Sapolsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harvey M |
| FAMILY NAME | Sapolsky |
| SIGNATURE | SAPOLSKY H M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The defense innovation machine: Why the U.S. will remain on the cutting edge
American security policy discussions commonly warn that the United States is falling behind technologically, especially vis-à-vis China. However, the U.S. military remains at the cutting edge because of its well-developed defense innovation system. No nation (or combination) comes close to U.S. investment in defense R&D. Unmatched political concerns about avoiding casualties, inherent rivalry among participants in the U.S. defense innovation syst…
The Many Lines of Defense: The Political Economy of US Defense Acquisition
Political economy infuses the process that generates military power, notably including weapons acquisition. In the United States, defense acquisition follows a dynamic balance of interests among the private companies that design and build weapons, the military services that use weapons, and the legislators that appropriate money to pay for weapons. That process belies the simplistic conventional wisdoms that explain acquisition as a direct result…
The End of Grand Strategy: U.S. Maritime Operations in the Twenty-First Century
War by Land, Sea, and Air: Dwight Eisenhower and the Concept of Unified Command – By David Jablonsky
The Politics of Healthcare in Britain – By Stephen Harrison and Ruth McDonald
The Politics of Healthcare in Britain . London : Sage Publications . x + 206 pages. ISBN 9780761941590 , $99.95 cloth. ISBN 9780761941606 , $34.95 paper . Harrison, Stephen and McDonald, Ruth . 2008 . Studies of health policy in one country generally travel poorly because they require more knowledge than most of us can muster of a nation's history and political culture as they explain the pathologies of that nation's policy experience. Harrison a…
Inventing Systems Integration
The US government needed more than money, a good strategy, and determination to wage the Cold War: it needed to invent the institutions that could sustain and co‐ordinate the long‐term enlistment of technology and industry for military purposes. The military structures that could command co‐ordination when most in society were ready to accept military discipline and priorities were inadequate for managing the less than total mobilization that fol…
Sidewinder: Creative Missile Development at China Lake. Ron Westrum
Restructuring the U.S. Defense Industry
January 01 2000 Restructuring the U.S. Defense Industry Eugene Gholz, Eugene Gholz Instructor in George Mason University's Institute of Public Policy and a Research Associate in the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Harvey M. Sapolsky Harvey M. Sapolsky Professor of Public Policy and Organization at MIT and Director of the MIT Security Studies …
Security Lessons from the Cold War
No one knows what security challenges the United States will face in the next century. To meet the challenges of the Cold War?Americas longest and most complex struggle?the United States created a set of institutions and societal relationships that let it prevail without sacrificing its way of life. As the new century approaches, those very institutions and relationships are at risk. Many now believe that because of Americas towering technologica…
Come Home, America: The Strategy of Restraint in the Face of Temptation
Casualties, Technology, and America's Future Wars
No one should want to fight the United States.We are the world's richest, most technologically capable nation.We can mobilize more combat power and move it farther, faster, and sustain it longer than anyone else.Sufficiently provoked, we are very dangerous, indeed even brutal.The World War II experience suggested this; the Korean and Vietnam wars added proof.Our vulnerabilities, such as they are, lie not in the quantity or quality of our conventi…
Defense Cuts the Easy Way
The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons
Information and Secrecy: Vannevar Bush, Ultra, and the Other Memex
From the Publisher: Written for the general reader, Burke's volume provides the first view of the relationships among America's librarians, cryptanalysts and educators as they created information science, computerized codebreaking, and the modern research university. Using hundreds of primary and secret documents and more than twenty illustrations to trace the careers of Vannevar Bush of MIT and the navy's codebreaking agency, OP-20-G, Burke show…
Science and the Navy: The History of the Office of Naval Research
The Call to Rome and Other Obstacles to State-Level Innovation
Among the important virtues attributed to the American federal system is its stimulus for policy innovation. The states on their own initiative can institute programs that may later become the model for national action. In this sense, America has 50 separately-directed laboratories in which to experiment with the design of public policies. A new approach to a common problem can be tested in one or several states before being considered for adopti…
Equipping the Armed Forces
Since World War II we have felt compelled for the first time in our history to maintain large standing forces. It is technology though, not numbers, that provides our edge in the continuing military competition with the Soviet Union. Acquiring advanced weapons is a complex process greatly complicated by our governmental system, which intentionally fragments political power. Mechanisms for improving the efficiency of the weapons acquisition proces…
The Blood Feud: Round Two
The Gift Relationship, R. Titmuss's 1970 book on blood donation, set off a debate between altruists and economists on the role of voluntary donors versus commercial blood banks. Singer reviews two recent titles on the subject: The American Blood Supply by A.W. Drake, S.N. Finkelstein, and H.M. Sapolsky; and Blood: Gift or Merchandise by P.J. Hagen. The American Blood Supply refutes many of Titmuss's criticisms of U.S. blood policy, and discusses …
Federal Health Programs: Problems and Prospects
The challenge of social equity
Writing the regulations for health
Terminating federal research and development programs
The Polaris System Development: Bureaucratic and Programmic Success in Government
The Polaris System Development: Bureaucratic and Programmatic Success in Government
Science policy in American State Government
Come Home, America: The Strategy of Restraint in the Face of Temptation
Restructuring the U.S. Defense Industry
January 01 2000 Restructuring the U.S. Defense Industry Eugene Gholz, Eugene Gholz Instructor in George Mason University's Institute of Public Policy and a Research Associate in the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Harvey M. Sapolsky Harvey M. Sapolsky Professor of Public Policy and Organization at MIT and Director of the MIT Security Studies …
Terminating federal research and development programs
Security Lessons from the Cold War
No one knows what security challenges the United States will face in the next century. To meet the challenges of the Cold War?Americas longest and most complex struggle?the United States created a set of institutions and societal relationships that let it prevail without sacrificing its way of life. As the new century approaches, those very institutions and relationships are at risk. Many now believe that because of Americas towering technologica…
The Fluoridation Controversy: An Alternative Explanation
Fluoridation, the addition of fluoride compounds to the public water supply in order to reduce tooth decay, is a health innovation that appears to have considerable benefits and only modest costs. It is also, however, an innovation that has produced a protracted public controversy which has not been fully understood. Here, Sapolsky examines proposed explanations of the controversy and offers an alternative more nearly compatible with the evidence…
The Many Lines of Defense: The Political Economy of US Defense Acquisition
Political economy infuses the process that generates military power, notably including weapons acquisition. In the United States, defense acquisition follows a dynamic balance of interests among the private companies that design and build weapons, the military services that use weapons, and the legislators that appropriate money to pay for weapons. That process belies the simplistic conventional wisdoms that explain acquisition as a direct result…
Equipping the Armed Forces
Since World War II we have felt compelled for the first time in our history to maintain large standing forces. It is technology though, not numbers, that provides our edge in the continuing military competition with the Soviet Union. Acquiring advanced weapons is a complex process greatly complicated by our governmental system, which intentionally fragments political power. Mechanisms for improving the efficiency of the weapons acquisition proces…
Science policy in American State Government
Criteria for Scientific Development: Public Policy and National Goals. Edward Shils The Government of Science. Harvey Brooks
The Fluoridation Controversy: An Alternative Explanation
Fluoridation, the addition of fluoride compounds to the public water supply in order to reduce tooth decay, is a health innovation that appears to have considerable benefits and only modest costs. It is also, however, an innovation that has produced a protracted public controversy which has not been fully understood. Here, Sapolsky examines proposed explanations of the controversy and offers an alternative more nearly compatible with the evidence…
Science policy in American State Government
The Polaris System Development: Bureaucratic and Programmatic Success in Government
The Polaris System Development: Bureaucratic and Programmic Success in Government
Writing the regulations for health
Terminating federal research and development programs
The challenge of social equity
Federal Health Programs: Problems and Prospects
The Blood Feud: Round Two
The Gift Relationship, R. Titmuss's 1970 book on blood donation, set off a debate between altruists and economists on the role of voluntary donors versus commercial blood banks. Singer reviews two recent titles on the subject: The American Blood Supply by A.W. Drake, S.N. Finkelstein, and H.M. Sapolsky; and Blood: Gift or Merchandise by P.J. Hagen. The American Blood Supply refutes many of Titmuss's criticisms of U.S. blood policy, and discusses …
The Call to Rome and Other Obstacles to State-Level Innovation
Among the important virtues attributed to the American federal system is its stimulus for policy innovation. The states on their own initiative can institute programs that may later become the model for national action. In this sense, America has 50 separately-directed laboratories in which to experiment with the design of public policies. A new approach to a common problem can be tested in one or several states before being considered for adopti…
Equipping the Armed Forces
Since World War II we have felt compelled for the first time in our history to maintain large standing forces. It is technology though, not numbers, that provides our edge in the continuing military competition with the Soviet Union. Acquiring advanced weapons is a complex process greatly complicated by our governmental system, which intentionally fragments political power. Mechanisms for improving the efficiency of the weapons acquisition proces…
Science and the Navy: The History of the Office of Naval Research
Information and Secrecy: Vannevar Bush, Ultra, and the Other Memex
From the Publisher: Written for the general reader, Burke's volume provides the first view of the relationships among America's librarians, cryptanalysts and educators as they created information science, computerized codebreaking, and the modern research university. Using hundreds of primary and secret documents and more than twenty illustrations to trace the careers of Vannevar Bush of MIT and the navy's codebreaking agency, OP-20-G, Burke show…
The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons
Casualties, Technology, and America's Future Wars
No one should want to fight the United States.We are the world's richest, most technologically capable nation.We can mobilize more combat power and move it farther, faster, and sustain it longer than anyone else.Sufficiently provoked, we are very dangerous, indeed even brutal.The World War II experience suggested this; the Korean and Vietnam wars added proof.Our vulnerabilities, such as they are, lie not in the quantity or quality of our conventi…
Defense Cuts the Easy Way
Come Home, America: The Strategy of Restraint in the Face of Temptation
Security Lessons from the Cold War
No one knows what security challenges the United States will face in the next century. To meet the challenges of the Cold War?Americas longest and most complex struggle?the United States created a set of institutions and societal relationships that let it prevail without sacrificing its way of life. As the new century approaches, those very institutions and relationships are at risk. Many now believe that because of Americas towering technologica…
Restructuring the U.S. Defense Industry
January 01 2000 Restructuring the U.S. Defense Industry Eugene Gholz, Eugene Gholz Instructor in George Mason University's Institute of Public Policy and a Research Associate in the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Harvey M. Sapolsky Harvey M. Sapolsky Professor of Public Policy and Organization at MIT and Director of the MIT Security Studies …
Sidewinder: Creative Missile Development at China Lake. Ron Westrum
Inventing Systems Integration
The US government needed more than money, a good strategy, and determination to wage the Cold War: it needed to invent the institutions that could sustain and co‐ordinate the long‐term enlistment of technology and industry for military purposes. The military structures that could command co‐ordination when most in society were ready to accept military discipline and priorities were inadequate for managing the less than total mobilization that fol…
The Politics of Healthcare in Britain – By Stephen Harrison and Ruth McDonald
The Politics of Healthcare in Britain . London : Sage Publications . x + 206 pages. ISBN 9780761941590 , $99.95 cloth. ISBN 9780761941606 , $34.95 paper . Harrison, Stephen and McDonald, Ruth . 2008 . Studies of health policy in one country generally travel poorly because they require more knowledge than most of us can muster of a nation's history and political culture as they explain the pathologies of that nation's policy experience. Harrison a…
War by Land, Sea, and Air: Dwight Eisenhower and the Concept of Unified Command – By David Jablonsky
The End of Grand Strategy: U.S. Maritime Operations in the Twenty-First Century
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