Liberty and Research and Development: Science Funding in a Free Society Volume 506

by Tibor R. Machan

Since World War II, it has become generally accepted that most advanced scientific research will be funded by the federal government. But despite the usefulness of some of these expenditures, there remains the question of whether the funds were necessarily deployed in the best way. How would the money have been spent had it remained in private hands? Might some other projects have served more valuable purposes? And could these alternative projects...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817929428
• ISBN13: 9780817929428
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
• Length: 124 Pages