Profits of Science: The American Marriage of Business and Technology

Teitelman, Robert

ISBN 10: 0465039839 / ISBN 13: 9780465039838

Published by New York, New York, U.S.A.: Basic Books, 1994

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Hardcover in fine condition with near fine dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Profits of Science: The American Marriage of Business and Technology
• Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A.: Basic Books
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0465039839
• ISBN 13: 9780465039838
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • business

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Synopsis

A practical examination focuses on the partially successful relationship between American business and technology since 1945, discarding the notion that bigger is better.

Reviews

The playfulness of the title is flattened by the weight of the macroeconomic analysis that underlies Teitelman's thesis that there exists a pattern of interaction between technological innovation and capital formation in post-WW II America, with the source of financing determining how the technology will be utilized. A business journalist and author of Gene Dreams , he focuses on three technologies of the 1950s and '60s that sprang from academic wartime research: microelectronics, clinical pharmaceuticals and television. The implicit premise that the American "marriage" of science and manufacturing techonology--officiated by capital--has its own character has been overlooked in recent examinations of postwar Japanese and German business performance. The historical pattern that Teitelman pursues, citing the company histories of Syntex, RCA, Texas Instruments and others, is difficult to prove with three or so case industries. Yet the issue of expanding technologies has rarely seemed so compelling in American history and Teitelman offers convincing evidence that such an economic grail exists--and holds our future.
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