If Lin-Manuel Miranda is looking for his next biographical subject, to dramatize the neglected origin-stories of the country, I have a nominee. Meet Georg Friedrich List.
I would like to see the story of Morris Chang widely told and framed as a story of the high cost of bigotry, in this case specifically to the US. I wonder just how many Salks, Einsteins, Edisons etc. were lost to all of us because bigotry kept their talents from being developed.
Belated thanks for your note. Yes, good point. And, as Chang made clear in his interview, it was largely a "glass ceiling" that made him decide to leave the US — in addition to all the "pull" factors in Taiwan.
I remember your fascinating presentation of G. F. List but cannot recall if I saw it first in the magazine or the book. Your discourse about the origins of TMSC also evoke a personal memories from 1975 when investigating international technology transfers while an undergrad intern at the National Association of Manufacturers in DC: I attended a three-day seminar at Foggy Bottom during which the late J. Fred Bucy from Texas Instruments opined loudly about the beginnings of large scale "theft" (his term) of intellectual property from the US to Asia under the guise of more efficient production and expansion of global markets and, in part, from the training of Chinese and Japanese scientists and engineers in US-based institutions...
... which is a long-winded and personal query: do you consider the 'natural' diffusion of knowledge on a global scale to be 'normal'?
The notion of 'natural' meaning via the non-fungible nature of education, training, and expertise versus espionage and theft. As for my experience in this realm, 'our' report (a collective project) considered the development processes employed by Boeing and the UK/FR consortium behind the 747 and Concorde, respectively... and the singular memory that I retain was that the Soviet Union made a huge mistake when designing the Tupolev Tu-144 based partly on stolen information about the Concorde precisely because it was not matched by a human resource equal to the same task.
Linda Healey lived four doors away from me on West 76th with poor Tony Lukas, about the entire time I was there from 1980 to 1990. We shared many meals. How lucky you were to have her as an editor. I though she was a truly great woman.
Tony's writing was an inspiration to all of us. (For anyone wondering: Yes, this is the J. Anthony Lukas of 'Common Ground' and other books.)
Linda was the editor of two books for me, 'Breaking the News' and 'Looking at the Sun.' A wonderful editor and friend. (She was also the guiding spirit behind Tom Geoghegan's great book 'Which Side Are You On?') You're fortunate, as I was, in the experience of knowing Tony and Linda.
I hated that everything was based on the assumption that humans act rationally. I wound up studying cognitive development where I learned about the research by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman which proved that assumption was wrong and provided the basis for behavioral economics.
Presumably you are going to tell us about those "questions that I think should be discussed again, and would point us to much better solutions and answers now" ... right? Or are you expecting I myself would know what they are if I would just read all the material to which you included a link in this post?
I would like to see the story of Morris Chang widely told and framed as a story of the high cost of bigotry, in this case specifically to the US. I wonder just how many Salks, Einsteins, Edisons etc. were lost to all of us because bigotry kept their talents from being developed.
Belated thanks for your note. Yes, good point. And, as Chang made clear in his interview, it was largely a "glass ceiling" that made him decide to leave the US — in addition to all the "pull" factors in Taiwan.
I remember your fascinating presentation of G. F. List but cannot recall if I saw it first in the magazine or the book. Your discourse about the origins of TMSC also evoke a personal memories from 1975 when investigating international technology transfers while an undergrad intern at the National Association of Manufacturers in DC: I attended a three-day seminar at Foggy Bottom during which the late J. Fred Bucy from Texas Instruments opined loudly about the beginnings of large scale "theft" (his term) of intellectual property from the US to Asia under the guise of more efficient production and expansion of global markets and, in part, from the training of Chinese and Japanese scientists and engineers in US-based institutions...
... which is a long-winded and personal query: do you consider the 'natural' diffusion of knowledge on a global scale to be 'normal'?
The notion of 'natural' meaning via the non-fungible nature of education, training, and expertise versus espionage and theft. As for my experience in this realm, 'our' report (a collective project) considered the development processes employed by Boeing and the UK/FR consortium behind the 747 and Concorde, respectively... and the singular memory that I retain was that the Soviet Union made a huge mistake when designing the Tupolev Tu-144 based partly on stolen information about the Concorde precisely because it was not matched by a human resource equal to the same task.
Linda Healey lived four doors away from me on West 76th with poor Tony Lukas, about the entire time I was there from 1980 to 1990. We shared many meals. How lucky you were to have her as an editor. I though she was a truly great woman.
Tony's writing was an inspiration to all of us. (For anyone wondering: Yes, this is the J. Anthony Lukas of 'Common Ground' and other books.)
Linda was the editor of two books for me, 'Breaking the News' and 'Looking at the Sun.' A wonderful editor and friend. (She was also the guiding spirit behind Tom Geoghegan's great book 'Which Side Are You On?') You're fortunate, as I was, in the experience of knowing Tony and Linda.
Your article reminds me why I dropped out of studying econ in college in the 60s: it was taught as its subject was not enmeshed in histories.
I hated that everything was based on the assumption that humans act rationally. I wound up studying cognitive development where I learned about the research by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman which proved that assumption was wrong and provided the basis for behavioral economics.
When I was studying economics in grad school in England, I kept asking why we weren't learning history as part of the curriculum ...
Presumably you are going to tell us about those "questions that I think should be discussed again, and would point us to much better solutions and answers now" ... right? Or are you expecting I myself would know what they are if I would just read all the material to which you included a link in this post?
Fair questions. Stay tuned!