The RAND Corporation and the Cold War: Research and Policy Making for National Defense and Social Welfare, 1946-1991

兰德公司和冷战：国防和社会福利的研究和政策制定，1946 年至 1991 年

• 批准号: 9710563
• 负责人: David Jardini
• 金额: $ 12.1万
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-08-01 至 2000-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9710563&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAND; Corporation; Cold; War; Research

This project will use the history of the RAND corporation as a window on the complex interaction among national security and social welfare research and policy making in Cold War America. It argues that the Cold War had deep effects not only on the locus of research and development but also on the process of knowledge production. In research already completed the PI has examined RAND's nature and objectives as a research organization, the breadth and productivity of RAND's research programs, and the diffusion of RAND's research products. The present study will focus on RAND's experience in non-defense research and the impact of RAND's methodologies on the execution of American social welfare policy in the 1970s and 1980s. The project will also examine RAND's contributions to game theory, war gaming, economic theory, and simulation. Methods of research include archival investigation, reading of primary and secondary sources, and interviews. The result of the project will be a book expected to have wide readership across several disciplines.

这个项目将利用兰德公司的历史作为一个窗口，在冷战时期的美国国家安全和社会福利研究和政策制定之间的复杂互动。 文章认为，冷战不仅对研究和发展的轨迹产生了深刻的影响，而且对知识生产的过程也产生了深刻的影响。 在已经完成的研究中，PI检查了兰德公司作为一个研究机构的性质和目标、兰德公司研究项目的广度和生产力，以及兰德公司研究产品的传播。 本研究将集中于兰德在非国防研究的经验和兰德的方法论对美国社会福利政策的执行在20世纪70年代和80年代的影响。 该项目还将研究兰德的贡献，博弈论，战争游戏，经济理论和模拟。 研究方法包括档案调查、阅读第一手资料和第二手资料，以及访谈。 该项目的成果将是一本预计将在几个学科拥有广泛读者的书。