1945 – voortsetting of weerkeer? – 1975

Thomas Leslie Technological Sublime , 1945 to 1975 Just

U.S. government-sponsored radiation research on humans 1945-1975.

the United States' cold war experience was reopened when Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary responded to news media reports about government-sponsored radiation research involving hundreds of human subjects, often without their informed consent. At a December 7 press conference on her initiative to declassify some of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) nuclear research records, O'Leary commented ...

The Political Economy of the British National Health Service, 1945–1975: Opportunities and Constraints?

The National Health Service (NHS) has often been regarded, by both academic commentators and the public, as the centrepiece of Britain’s welfare state. It has retained a high degree of popularity, and politicians have had to take account of this, privately and publicly. So, for example, in the late 1950s a leading Conservative observed that the electorate might accept cuts in defence spending: ...

Coordinating Market Forces: The Anatomy of Investment Decisions in the Japanese Steel Industry, 1945-1975

With a legacy of legal cartels, protectionism and government intervention in private economic activity, Japan endorses a different system of competitive capitalism from that which prevails in the United States. This research examines the effect of Japan's competition policies on the development of Japan's postwar steel industry. In this paper, I describe my findings on the Japanese system of in...

Seppo Santavirta 1945 – 2005