Interstate Highways, Radar, Tang: Does War Promote Technological Innovation?

Tags: Entrepreneurship, Philosophy and Methodology, Production Theory, War and Foreign Policy

01/30/2014 Peter G. Klein

The James M. Rodney Lecture, presented at the 2012 Mises Institute Supporters Summit. Recorded at Callaway Gardens, Georgia, on 26 October 2012. Includes an introduction by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

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