Science for Welfare and Warfare
Technology and State Initiative in Cold War Sweden
Per Lundin, Niklas Stenlås, and Johan Gribbe, editors
Contents
Chapter 1: Per Lundin and Niklas Stenlås
Technology, State Initiative and National Myths in Cold War Sweden: An Introduction
Chapter 2: Thomas Kaiserfeld
From the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to the Research Institute of Society: Long-Term Policy Convergence of Swedish Knowledge Intermediaries
Chapter 3: Niklas Stenlås
Military Technology, National Identity and the State: The Rise and Decline of a Small State’s Military-Industrial Complex
Chapter 4: Kristoffer Strandqvist
Technology Transfer and the Making of the Cold War Swedish Aircraft Industry: Project 1001 and the Opportunities Created by British Disarmament
Chapter 5: Tom Petersson
Private and Public Interests in the Development of the Early Swedish Computer Industry: Facit, Saab and the Struggle for National Dominance
Chapter 6: Sverker Sörlin and Nina Wormbs
Rockets and Reindeer: A Space Development Pair in a Northern Welfare Hinterland
Chapter 7: Maja Fjæstad and Thomas Jonter
Between Welfare and Warfare: The Rise and Fall of the ‘Swedish Line’ in Nuclear Engineering
Chapter 8: Hans Jörgensen
Neutrality and National Preparedness: State-Led Agricultural Rationalizations in Cold War Sweden
Chapter 9: Gustav Holmberg
Public Health, National Security and Food Technology in the Cold War: The Swedish Institute for Food Preservation Research
Chapter 10: Ulla Rosén
“A Rational Solution to the Laundry Issue”: Policy and Research for Day-to-Day Life in the Welfare State
Chapter 11: Carina Gråbacke and Jan Jörnmark
The Political Construction of the “Million Housing Programme:’’ The State and the Swedish Building Industry
Lost in Translation?: Science, Technology and the State since the 1970s
2010 Clothbound and jacketed, illustrated, 978-0-88135-425-6
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