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It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of polymer science to life in the twentieth century. Developments in polymer chemistry and engineering have led not only to the creation of a variety of substances such as synthetic fibers, synthetic rubber, and plastic but also to discoveries about proteins, DNA, and other biological compounds that have revolutionized western medicine. For these reasons, the history of the discipline tells an important story about how both our material and intellectual worlds have come to be as they are. Yasu Furukawa explores that history by tracing the emergence of macromolecular chemistry, the true beginning of modern polymer science. It is a lively book, given human interest through its focus on the work of two of the central figures in the development of macromolecular chemistry, Hermann Staudinger and Wallace Carothers. In Inventing Polymer Science, Furukawa examines the origins and development of the scientific work of Staudinger and Carothers, illuminates their different styles in research and professional activities, and contrasts the peculiar institutional and social milieux in which they pursued their goals.
Macromolecules --- Polymerization --- Polymers --- History. --- Staudinger, Hermann, --- Carothers, Wallace Hume, --- Chemistry. --- Physical Sciences.
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How much credit can be given to entrepreneurship for the unprecedented innovation and growth of free-enterprise economies? In this book, some of the world's leading economists tackle this difficult and understudied question, and their responses shed new light on how free-market economies work--and what policies most encourage their growth. The contributors take as their starting point William J. Baumol's 2002 book The Free-Market Innovation Machine (Princeton), which argued that independent entrepreneurs are far more important to growth than economists have traditionally thought, and that an implicit partnership between such entrepreneurs and large corporations is critical to the success of market economies. The contributors include the editors and Robert M. Solow, Kenneth J. Arrow, Michael M. Weinstein, Douglass C. North, Barry R. Weingast, Ying Lowrey, Nathan Rosenberg, Melissa A. Schilling, Corey Phelps, Sylvia Nasar, Boyan Jovanovic, Peter L. Rousseau, Edward N. Wolff, Deepak Somaya, David J. Teece, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Kenneth L. Sokoloff, Yochanan Shachmurove, Ralph E. Gomory, Jonathan Eaton, Samuel S. Kortum, Alan S. Blinder, Robert J. Shiller, Burton G. Malkiel, and Edmund S. Phelps.
American Marconi Corporation. --- Athanasoulis, Stefano. --- Bergson, Henri. --- Blanchard, Thomas. --- Brush Electric Company. --- Burlington and Quincy Railroad. --- Carothers, Wallace. --- Cisco Systems. --- Cromwell, Oliver. --- DiCaprio, Leonardo. --- Digital. --- Eaton, Jonathan. --- Economides, Nicholas. --- Emerson, Ralph Waldo. --- Fleming, Alexander. --- Genentech. --- Gomory, Ralph E. --- Hamilton, Alexander. --- Hobbes, Thomas. --- Index of Economic Freedom. --- Intel Corporation. --- James, William. --- Jansky, Karl. --- Jovanovic, Boyan. --- Keller, Wolfgang. --- Keynes, John Maynard. --- Langmuir, Irving. --- Lawrence, Andrew. --- Leonardo da Vinci. --- Lowrey, Ying. --- Mao Zedong. --- Marx, Karl. --- Mauro, Paolo. --- Mowery, David. --- Nasar, Sylvia. --- National Science Foundation. --- Nordhaus, William. --- Oak Park, Illinois. --- Panofsky, Wolfgang. --- Pasteur, Louis. --- aggregative growth theory. --- antitrust policy. --- civil service examinations. --- corporatism. --- democracy. --- eBay. --- engineering disciplines. --- exact boundary theorem. --- exogenous growth models. --- expropriation, governmental. --- intellectual property. --- knowledge spillovers. --- lasers. --- networks: alliance. --- new growth economics. --- optimal portfolio of innovations. --- patent agents.
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