Notes on Social Science Policy

Steindl, Josef

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Collection:: Josef Steindl Collection

Title:: Notes on Social Science Policy

Author:: Steindl, Josef

Scope:: Typoskript, 14 Blätter, handschriftliche Notiz auf der Rückseite von Blatt 11

Year of publication:: ohne Datum

Language:: English

Description:: Development of knowledge, social sciences, alienation, moral responsibility for scientific creation, integrated science policy.

Note:: Unveröffentlichtes Typoskript.

Topic:: Economic history,economic theory,current developments

JEL Classification:: A12 [Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines] A13 [Relation of Economics to Social Values]

Shelfmark:: S/M.44.4

Access:: Free access

9 "basis as well as a consciousness of being needed or "useful”. (The chief and most successful applications seem to be military or quasi-military (which space flights may be called in a purely descriptive way), or else they are going on in the pre cincts of the large concerns. In both cases the diffusion of the experience gained is not quite free. Operational Research can be of use also in civilian administration of governments, but this potential use has not been sufficiently tried out, in some countries hardly at all. One problem which is common to all social sciences is that their development is exceedingly uneven between countries (the dif fusion apparently meets with more difficulties than in the case of natural science and engineering). International cooperation, for this reason alone, could be helpful, and an international organisation would have a role to play just here. All social sciences can be greatly helped by more interdis ciplinary cooperation, but this cannot be achieved merely by stuffing a mixed and varied curriculum into the students' throats. (Cowards an Integrated Science Policy 'The question of an integrated science policy must start from the idea that we are having - or that we ought to have - a great reorientation in science policy.Formerly the basic aim was growth of GNP. We have to be more subtle now, and we don't

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