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Stop worry about China already!

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Praj / 0 Comment

Konstantin Kakaes tells us to chill out and stop worrying about Chinese science: The bible of the competitiveness crowd is a National Academy of Sciences report...

Basic Research/Economics/Policy

More sloppy thinking on DOD-funded research

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Praj / 0 Comment

I’m sure that Matt Yglesias has forgotten more economics in the past hour than I will ever know. And yet, he believes that “if spending on military ...

Basic Research/Economics/Policy

Sloppy thinking on DOD-funded research

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Praj / 0 Comment

Several liberal bloggers protested the Times suggestion that cutting the Defense budget will reduce innovation. While some of their points are well-taken (the D...

Economics

Fostering Innovation

Posted on May 14, 2011 by Praj / 1 Comment

Another quick link to another blog. Check out Financial Times columnist Tim Hartford calling for more experimentation and risk-taking: I think our system for pr...

Economics

Ideas are overrated

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Praj / 0 Comment

Light blogging week this week. But check out Farhad Manjoo, who insists that Mark Zuckerberg, not anyone else, invented Facebook and deserves the credit. I̵...

Economics

The Chinese (and Indians) are taking over!

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Praj / 1 Comment

Here’s David Rothkopf at Foreign Policy parroting the standard (and careless) meme that there is a simple, straightforward link between scientific product...

Economics/Philosophy

Economics and the demarcation distraction

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Praj / 2 Comments

A few days ago several bloggers felt it necessary to discuss the scientific status of economics (see Ryan Avent, Adam Ozimek, Matt Yglesias, and Jim Manzi). Aft...

Basic Research/Economics

Discovery is not a synonym for innovation

Posted on February 12, 2011 by Praj / 0 Comment

My last post discussed Lehrer’s column on the increased difficulty of making scientific discoveries. Lehrer should have stuck with that topic alone instea...

Basic Research/Economics

The slowdown of meaningful discovery

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Praj / 1 Comment

Jonah Lehrer has again written a provacative piece, arguing that growing collaboration and teamwork among scientists is a response to “all the low-hanging...

Economics

Science of science measurement

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Praj / 0 Comment

I should have linked to this earlier, but here’s the webcast and white papers from a 2-day NSF workshop on the science of science measurement. Rush Holt&#...

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