The Technology Pork Barrel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9822692 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William Diebold (corresponding author), Linda R Cohen, Roger G Noll (0000-0001-9012-3773) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 187 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Foreign Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-7120 • E-ISSN: 2327-7793 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/20045032 |
| OpenAlex | W2069356885 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
American public policy has had a long history of technological optimism. The success of the United States in research and development contributes to this optimism and leads many to assume that there is a technological fix for significant national problems. Since World War II the federal government has been the major supporter of commercial research and development efforts in a wide variety of industries. But how successful are these projects? And equally important, how do economic and policy factors influence performance and are these influences predictable and controllable? Linda Cohen, Roger Noll, and three other economists address these questions while focusing on the importance of R& D to the national economy. They examine the codependency between technological progress and economic growth and explain such matters as why the private sector often fails to fund commercially applicable research adequately and why the government should focus support on some industries and not others. They also analyze political incentives facing officials who enact and implement programs and the subsequent forces affecting decisions to continue, terminate, or redirect them. The central part of this book presents detailed case histories of six programs: the supersonic transport, communications satellites, the space shuttle, the breeder reactor, photovoltaics, and synthetic fuels. The authors conclude with recommendations for program restructuring to minimize the conflict between economic objectives and political constraints
Business · Economic growth · Economic policy · Economics · Geography · Government (linguistics · Incentive · Interim · Market economy · Optimism · Political science · Politics · Private sector · Restructuring · Supporter · Variety (cybernetics · Economic Growth and Productivity · Finance · Public Administration
The Conflict over Vertical Foreclosure in Competition Policy and Intellectual Property Law
Addressing myths science and public policy in the United States
Beyond market failures
Is public R&D a complement or substitute for private R&D? A review of the econometric evidence
The Effects of Government-Industry R&D Programs on Private R&D
Congressional committees and the political economy of federal outlays
Governmental failures in evaluating programs
Last of the Dinosaurs? Big Weapons, Big Science, and the American State from Hiroshima to the End of the Cold War
Public-Private Technology Partnerships
The Regime Complex for Climate Change
The capital gap for small technology companies
How to vote, whether to vote
A domestic agenda to strengthen America
The logic of deflective action
Second generation fiscal federalism
On the incentives to establish and play political rent-seeking games
Negative emissions—Part 3
Policy innovation for technology diffusion
A tale of two market failures
The Public Administration of Investment
Risk Aversion in Contests
When Bureaucrats Meet Entrepreneurs
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2018 (28) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |