| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 262 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Cornell studies in political economy |
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Cornell studies in political economy.
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| Contents |
The national security state and technology leadership -- The U.S. puzzle -- The argument -- Re-viewing the NSS-private sector relationship -- Existing accounts: discounting, sidelining, civilianizing the state -- The approach of this book -- New thinking on the American state -- Rise of the national security state as technology enterprise -- Emergence -- Growth: the Sputnik effect -- Crisis: the legitimation and innovation deficit -- Reform and reorientation (i): beginnings -- Reform and reorientation (ii): consolidation -- Re-visioning -- Concluding comments -- Investing in new ventures -- Geopolitical roots of the U.S. venture capital industry -- Post-cold war trends: new funds for a new security environment -- Conclusion -- Beyond serendipity: procuring transformative technology -- Technology procurement versus R & D: the activist element of government purchasing -- Spin-off and spin-around: serendipitous and purposeful -- Breaching the wall: nudging towards military-commercial (re- )integration -- Reorienting the public-private partnership -- Structural changes in the domestic arena -- Reorientation: the quest for commercial viability -- Beyond a military-industrial divide: innovating for security and commerce -- Overview and conclusion -- No more breakthroughs? -- Post-9/11 decline of the NSS technology enterprise? -- Nanotechnology: a coordinated effort -- Robotics: the drive for drones -- Clean energy: from laggard to leader? -- Caveat: a faltering NSS innovation engine? -- Conclusion -- Hybridization and American anti-statism -- The significance of hybridization -- An american tendency? -- Nature of the beast: neither privatization nor outsourcing -- Innovation hybrids -- Discussion and conclusion -- Penetrating the myths of the military-commerce relationship -- myths laid bare -- The (serendipitous) spinoff -- Hidden industrial policy -- Wall of separation: military-industrial complex -- Quantity of r & d spending creates innovation leadership -- The defense spending question: in search of the Holy Grail? -- Conclusion -- Conclusions: hybrid state, hybrid capitalism, great power turning -- Comparative institutions and varieties of capitalism -- The American state -- Great power turning point: fettered strength -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
"For more than half a century, the United States has led the world in developing major technologies that drive the modern economy and underpin its prosperity. Linda Weiss attributes the U.S. capacity for transformative innovation to the strength of its national security state, a complex of agencies, programs, and hybrid arrangements that has developed around the institution of permanent defense preparedness and the pursuit of technological supremacy. In America Inc.? she examines how that complex emerged and how it has evolved in response to changing geopolitical threats and domestic political constraints, from the Cold War period to the post-9/11 era."--Back cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-253) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Military-industrial complex -- United States
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National security -- United States -- 21st century
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Military-industrial complex
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National security
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2013038090 |
| ISBN |
9780801471131 |
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0801471133 |
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