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• Winter 2017

  A Technology-Based Growth Policy

  Gregory Tassey

  Monetary and fiscal policies to stimulate the economy are no substitute for the national research and development investment needed to spur productivity growth and create high-paying, high-skill jobs. Talk to people in… Read More

• Fall 2016

  Crime and Immigration: New Forms of Exclusion and Discrimination

  Mary C. Waters

  Mary C. Waters gives a lecture on The War on Crime and the War on Immigrants: New Forms of Legal Exclusion and Discrimination in the United States In the United States today,… Read More

• Spring 2016

  Transforming the Active Orientation

  Amitai Etzioni

  Our ambitions are high. We have a long list of desiderata that, in effect, entail re-engineering much of the physical and social world around us, even the self. We Americans are keen… Read More

• Winter 2016

  How to Bring Global R&D into Latin America: Lessons from Chile

  José Guimón, Laurens Klerkx, Thierry de Saint Pierre

  Over the past several decades, a growing number of multinational companies have established research and development (R&D) facilities outside of their home countries. More recently, some universities and public research organizations have… Read More

• November 12, 2013

  Retailer Information

  Issues in Science and Technology is for sale in a variety of stores. If you are a retailer, contact any of our distributors below to place orders. ARMADILLO DISTRIBUTORS 7310 S. La… Read More

• Summer 2015

  The Pauling-Teller Debate: A Tangle of Expertise and Values

  Melinda Gormley, Melissae Fellet

  This historic debate from the height of the Cold War provides a refreshing perspective on science and politics. By 1958, Americans had been living under threat of nuclear attack for more than… Read More

• Winter 2015

  Forum – Winter 2015

  William B. Bonvillian, Alan I. Leshner, Fanta Aw, Edward Alden, Diane Ravitch, Sarah A. Lewis, Robert Nerem, Kate Konschnik, Byron Newberry, Glen Miller, Deborah G. Johnson, Darryl Farber, Roel Snieder, Peter Kroes

  Immigration reform In “Streamlining the Visa Immigration Systems for Scientists and Engineers” (Issues, Fall 2014), Albert H. Teich articulates very well many of the arguments for making the U.S. visa… Read More

• Fall 2014

  Forum – Fall 2014

  Peter C. Frumhoff, Jim Presswood, Armond Cohen

  Climate deadlock In “Breaking the Climate Deadlock” (Issues, Summer 2014), David Garman, Kerry Emanuel, and Bruce Phillips present a thoughtful proposal for greatly expanded public- and private-sector R&D aimed at… Read More

• November 12, 2013

  Links

  Professional societies www.nationalacademies.org The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council. All National Academy Press books available free online. The Science and Public Policy… Read More

• Spring 2014

  Steal This Book

  Paul F. Uhlir

  In 1971, Abbie Hoffman mischievously named his first book-length screed Steal This Book, and founded a publishing company, Pirate Press, because no existing publisher would touch it. It was a countercultural… Read More

• Spring 2014

  And Now for Something Completely Different

  Kevin Finneran

  The poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote that “The Universe is made of stories, not of atoms.” And for most people, she is right, even though the hardcore Issues reader might not be happy… Read More

• Spring 2014

  The Politics behind China’s Quest for Nobel Prizes

  Junbo Yu

  JUNBO YU China is applying its strategy for winning Olympic gold to science policy. It may be surprised by the outcomes—but overall, the world will benefit. Skeptics about the capacity of… Read More

• Winter 2014

  Greenhouse Gas Emissions from International Transport

  Parth Vaishnav, Iddo K. Wernick

  International transport, which includes ocean shipping and aviation, is among the fastest-growing sources of human-generated greenhouse gas emissions. Between 2009 and 2010, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from international transport grew faster—… Read More

• Spring 2013

  Shorter Lives, Poorer Health

  Tom Plewes

  Americans’ life expectancy and health have improved over the past century but these gains have lagged behind those in other high-income countries. This health disadvantage has occurred even though the United … Read More

• Winter 2013

  The 21st-Century Land Rush

  Michael Kugelman

  The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) recently reported that nearly three dozen countries designated as “alarming” or “serious” on its Global Hunger Index scale are leasing vast swaths of farmland… Read More

• Fall 2011

  The Shifting Landscape of Science

  Caroline S. Wagner

  Citations to U.S. science, in the aggregate, have been flat over the past 30 years, whereas citations of research papers from the rest of the world have been rising steadily. Although the… Read More

• Fall 2012

  Controlling the Arms Bazaar

  Jo. L. Husbands

  In July 2012, after years of preliminary effort, United Nations (UN) member nations gathered in New York to draft a treaty that would provide the foundation for regulating the international arms trade.… Read More

• Spring 2010

  European Union: Measuring Success

  Patrick Cunningham

  In his keynote speech to the National Academy of Sciences on April 28, 2009, President Obama said that “science is more essential to our prosperity, our security, our health, our environment and… Read More

• Fall 2012

  The Climate Struggle Heats Up

  Martin W. Lewis

  In The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars, Michael E. Mann offers a personal assessment of the controversies and shenanigans that have surrounded the issue of global warming during the past… Read More

• Winter 2011

  Reducing Barriers to Online Access for People with Disabilities

  Jonathan Lazar, Paul Jaeger

  As ever more education, employment, communication, entertainment, civic participation, and government functions move primarily or exclusively online, the high levels of inaccessibility on the Web and in Internet-enabled mobile technologies threaten to… Read More

• Winter 2012

  Blueprint for Advancing High-Performance Homes

  James H. Turner Jr., Ellen Larson Vaughan

  Given the economic devastation caused by the housing industry collapse in the United States and the years remaining until full recovery, it may seem out of touch to be talking about meeting… Read More

• Spring 2011

  Forum – Spring 2011

  Kenneth P. Green, Victor Van Lint, Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Lenny Mendonca, Michael P. Ryan, Arnold M. Lund, Annuska Perkins, Susanna Hornig Priest, Matthew E. Kahn

  Technology innovation: setting the right policies In “Fighting Innovation Mercantilism” (Issues, Winter 2011), Stephen Ezell has identified a truly vexing problem: the proclivity of important countries (notably China) to… Read More

• Summer 2011

  The Life of Feynman

  William Lanouette

  William Lanouette explores the life and legacy of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman in his review of Lawrence M. Krauss’s “Quantum Man.”

• Winter 2011

  Fighting Innovation Mercantilism

  Stephen Ezell

  Despite the global economic downturn, indicators of global innovative activity have remained strong during the past two years. The total global output of scientific journal papers in all research fields for the… Read More

• Winter 2011

  Time for Climate Plan B

  William B. Bonvillian

  Policymakers in the United States and elsewhere have assumed for 15 years that putting a price on carbon would be an effective strategy for addressing climate change. Nations would price carbon emissions,… Read More

• Fall 2011

  Green Urban Revival

  Martin W. Lewis

  In The Agile City, James S. Russell offers a blueprint for restructuring the settlement system of the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change. Russell wants… Read More

• Fall 2010

  The Dismal State of Biofuels Policy

  C. Ford Runge, Robbin S. Johnson

  Biofuels policy in the United States remains controversial and much debated. In the months since BP’s catastrophic deep-water oil rig explosion, the international debate over energy, ever inclined to drift on the… Read More

• Fall 2010

  Strengthening Global Nuclear Governance

  Justin Alger, Trevor Findlay

  Motivated in large part by climate change and the need for carbon-free energy sources, governments and companies around the world are pushing to revive nuclear energy. Developed and developing countries alike have… Read More

• Fall 2010

  Costly water

  Martin W. Lewis

  Obsession may not be the best word to describe Americans’ attitude toward bottled water. Few people are preoccupied with the product; many purchase it without a second thought. But therein lies the… Read More

• Spring 2010

  Singapore: Betting on Biomedical Sciences

  Lim Chuan Poh

  In an April 2009 report, the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council noted that Singapore, an emerging biotech cluster, was “aiming to move up the value chain and position itself as a world-class center for… Read More