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THE BEST ANTIDOTE TO FEMINIST DESPAIR IS KNOWLEDGE OF FEMINISM'S HISTORY. WITH EACH NEW SKIRMISH IN THE GENDER WARS, FEMINISTS FALL INTO GREATER DISPAIR. FEMINISM HAS LOST SO OFTEN THAT THEY HAVE A TENDENCY TO FORGET THAT THEY HAVE TRANSFORMED AMERICAN POLITICAL CULTURE. FEMINIST ISSUES HAVE ENTERED NATIONAL MAINSTREAM POLITICS WHERE THEY HAVE BECOME A LITMUS TEST FOR BOTH RIGHT AND LEFT. THE REAL VICTORY IS THAT FEMINISTS HAVE POLITICIZED WOMEN'S EXPERIENCES AND FORCED THE NATION TO DEBATE THEM.

Contents: Needs, problems, opportunities; Administration of government science; Government science and the universities.

Front Cover; Research in Economic History; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; Prices, Wages, and the Cost of Living in Old Republic São Paulo: 1891-1930; The Forgotten Half of Finance: Working-class Saving in Late Nineteenth-century New Jersey; Heights across the Last 2,000 Years in England; Monetary Policy and the Copper Price Bust: A Reassessment of the Causes of the 1907 Panic; Multiple Core Regions: Regional Inequality in Switzerland, 1860-2008; Index

Frontmatter --Contents --Preface --Introduction: The Agenda For Science And Technology Policy --Part I. The Social Context Of Science And Technology --A. The Society --1 . Technology, Evolution, And Purpose Harvey Brooks /Brooks, Harvey --2. How Technology Will Shape The Future /Mesthene, Emmanuel G. --3. The Artificial Environment: Disneyland Is Better /Roszak, Theodore --B. The Polity --4. The Spectrum From Truth To Power /Price, Don K. --5. The Scientist And The Politician /Revelle, Roger --C. The Economy --6. The National Climate For Technological Innovation /Schon, Donald --7. Trends In U.S. Technology: A Political Economist's View /Boretsky, Michael --D. World Affairs --8. Military Research And Development: A Postwar History /Greb, G. Allen / York, Herbert F. --9. The Transfer Of Technology To Underdeveloped Countries /Myrdal, Gunnar --10. The International Functional Implications Of Future Technology /Skolnikoff, Eugene B. --Part II. Science, Technology, And American Government --E. The Federal Executive --11. Organization For Science And Technology In The Executive Branch --12. The Scientific Advisory System: Some Observations /Perl, Martin L. --13. Office Of Management And Budget: Skeptical View Of Scientific Advice /Culliton, Barbara / Walsh, John --F. The Congress --14. Congress And The Science Budget /Roback, Herbert --15. Scientists On The Hill /Casper, Barry M. --16. The Rhetoric And Reality Of Congressional Technology Assessment /Casper, Barry M. --G. The Courts --17. Towards A New Technological Ethic: The Role Of Legal Liability /Tribe, Laurence H. --18. Risk And Responsibility /Bazelon, David L. --H. State And Local Government --19. Science Policy In American State Government /Sapolsky, Harvey M. --20. Federal Technology Policy: Innovation And Problem Solving In State And Local Governments /Roessner, J. David --I. Citizen Participation --21. Participatory Technology /Carroll, James D. --22. Information And The New Movements For Citizen Participation /Henderson, Hazel --J. Public Choice --23. Technology Assessment And Social Control /Baram, Michael S. --24. The Politics Of Technology Assessment /Berg, Mark R. --25. Science And The Formation Of Policy In A Democracy /MacRae Jr, Duncan --Annotated Bibliography --Index

Abstract
In Switzerland, the relatively new social work departments are located in so-called universities of applied sciences (UASs), which provide a university-based and practice-oriented education. At the beginning, UASs were required to carry out 'applied' research and their teaching had to be 'non-academic', unlike in traditional universities. Although this definition is no longer present in the legal framework of tertiary education, it shapes policymakers' representations. In reality, research and teaching agendas in UAS departments of social work have become similar to those of the social sciences departments in traditional universities. However, two aspects differentiate them from their counterparts in traditional universities and from other UAS departments today: Less research funding is available and social work students are more likely to accumulate socio-economic disadvantages compared to elsewhere. In this article, I discuss the role of social work departments in Switzerland, with a focus on the social knowledge they produce and transfer into teaching programmes and society. In addition, I use Arendt's thoughts about knowledge, education and democracy to reflect on the existing gap between political representations of—and what takes place in—UAS departments of social work in Switzerland. The article ends with recommendations for policymakers in Switzerland and abroad.

I argue that the liberal discourse of globalization is science fiction. That discourse, rather than simply reflecting recent trends & transformations, is part of a science fiction/globalization intertext that encompasses both science fiction & a liberal globalization discourse spanning the media, state officials, & multilateral economic institutions. After a brief introduction to the notion of an intertext, I examine the defining tropes & narratives of the dominant liberal discourse of globalization. Using Isaac Asimov's Foundation series as an exemplar, I then show that these tropes & narratives are also central features of 1950s American utopian science fiction. I argue not only that the narratives & tropes are similar across these two sets of texts, but also that they are animated by a similar problematic, one based on order & stability & legitimating authoritarianism. Adapted from the source document.

Economics, dealing with mental processes of decision makers is part of cognitive science; conversely, cognitive science, faced with constraints on information processing, is part of economics. In July 1990, the Cecoia 2 conference was organised in Paris to further explore the connections between the two. The papers presented in this volume illustrate this truly interdisciplinary research intertwining social and cognitive sciences. Three main topics are represented: agent's mental representation when facing complex uncertainty; agent's computational constraints leading to bounded rationality; agent's learning and evolution in an imperfectly known environment.

Mainstream social sciences in the 20th century have always been highly fragmented, with considerable isolation among disciplines such as psychology, sociology, and political science and many disconnected islands of theory and research pursued within each field. Today, even more fundamental epistemological questions about the nature of human action or social life and the proper way to explain or understand it are hotly debated and remain quite unresolved. This article argues that it may be helpful broadly to classify diverse approaches to social or human science as (a) explanatory, (b) descriptivist, (c) critical, (d) postmodern/social constructionist, and (e) hermeneutic or interpretive approaches to such inquiry. Every such typology is shaped by its own epistemological ideals and value commitments. The authors try to make their commitments explicit and explain some of the ways they feel that an interpretive social science or hermeneutic viewpoint offers a relatively coherent view of social inquiry that assists them in incorporating the virtues and avoiding the limitations of other approaches.