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Paperback Shaky Foundations: The Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus in Cold War America Book

ISBN: 0813571286

ISBN13: 9780813571287

Shaky Foundations: The Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus in Cold War America

(Part of the Studies in Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment Series)

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Numerous popular and scholarly accounts have exposed the deep impact of patrons on the production of scientific knowledge and its applications. Shaky Foundations provides the first extensive examination of a new patronage system for the social sciences that emerged in the early Cold War years and took more definite shape during the 1950s and early 1960s, a period of enormous expansion in American social science.

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