Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Reparations and capitalist progress.

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rod, in my Class Warfare book I discussed how capitalism impedes scientific
development.

Rod Hay wrote:

> The incentives provided by capitalism certainly lead to an acceleration of
> scientific development. Capitalism also provided a surplus which could finance
> time away from more mundane economic activities. The advent of mass education
> expanded the talent pool from which scientists could be drawn.
>
> Rod
>
> Brad De Long wrote:
>
> > > How much "progress" occurs
> > >because of science?  Do we attribute science to capitalism or can we
> > >consider the scientific process to be "non-capitalist?"
> >
> > Good and hard questions. I think that you would have to distinguish between
> > "science", "research", and "development" in order to answer them. And think
> > hard about the fact that it was not in producing the heavy industrial goods
> > of the second industrial revolution but in developing and producing
> > twentieth century technologies and the goods they made possible that really
> > existing socialism fell down.
> >
> > And you have to think about Lysenko...
> >
> > Brad DeLong
>
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