Stat, stiinţă şi societate. Corporaţia RAND şi politica americană din timpul Războiului Rece (1948-1962)
State, Science and Society

Summary/Abstract: Reloading and echoing a Biblical theme, modern industrial state, especially from libertarian view, has shown its capability of combining swords with ploughshares. The peril of modern centralised bureaucracy consists in chipping individual civic freedom for the sake of a small elite or state interests. One distinct view is the one of Murray Rothbard who argues that the growth of the modern national state has transformed intellectual independent labor in ideological propensity for its own sake. Focusing on America’s first part of the XX century, Rothbard considers that intellectuals (meaning a loose category encompassing a whole variety of subfield from mathematicians and school teachers to media pundits) have become a techno-priesthood forging a new alliance between Throne and Altar. Using Murray Rothbard’s theoretical framework, this study analyses RAND Corporation as a case of science embedding in service of political power.

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