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Lonely Ideas: Can Russia Compete?
Loren Graham
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Description for Lonely Ideas: Can Russia Compete?
Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages, 7 color illus., 12 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HBTK; PDX; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
An expert investigates Russia's long history of technological invention followed by commercial failure and points to new opportunities to break the pattern. When have you gone into an electronics store, picked up a desirable gadget, and found that it was labeled Made in Russia ? Probably never. Russia, despite its epic intellectual achievements in music, literature, art, and pure science, is a negligible presence in world technology. Despite its current leaders' ambitions to create a knowledge economy, Russia is economically dependent on gas and oil. In Lonely Ideas, Loren Graham investigates Russia's long history of ... Read more
An expert investigates Russia's long history of technological invention followed by commercial failure and points to new opportunities to break the pattern. When have you gone into an electronics store, picked up a desirable gadget, and found that it was labeled Made in Russia ? Probably never. Russia, despite its epic intellectual achievements in music, literature, art, and pure science, is a negligible presence in world technology. Despite its current leaders' ambitions to create a knowledge economy, Russia is economically dependent on gas and oil. In Lonely Ideas, Loren Graham investigates Russia's long history of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
MIT Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
449g
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262019798
SKU
V9780262019798
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About Loren Graham
Loren Graham, often described as the leading scholar on Russian science and technology outside that country, is the author of The Ghost of the Executed Engineer and other books. He is Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at MIT and Research Scholar at the Davis Center for Russia and Eurasian Studies at Harvard.
Reviews for Lonely Ideas: Can Russia Compete?
succinct and devastating... It should be required reading in the Kremlin. -Joshua Lustig, Current History This short, engaging book will please not only historians of science and technology, who know Graham's work well, but anyone interested in the social and economic conditions favorable to cultivating new, globally competitive industries. -Chronicle of Higher Education Lonely ... Read more