The Nationalization of American Science (opens in new tab)

Alex Tabarrok on Marginal Revolution Blog: OMB, joined by some forty grantmaking agencies—NSF, HHS, DOE, NASA, DOD among them—has proposed a sweeping rewrite of the rules governing all federal grants, the Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance. American science has long been state funded but not state directed. Since Vannevar Bush, money has flowed through many agencies to independent universities, […]