CHAPTER THREE
A Critique
CHAOS AND CUBAN CARS
DESPITE HIS OCCASIONAL frustrations with economists, John Reed maintained active connections with the academic community and served on the board of the prestigious Russell Sage Foundation, an organization that supports social science research. During a coffee break at a board meeting in New York, a fellow trustee, Bob Adams, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, told Reed about a radical new research organization that was being set up in the desert of New Mexico.1 The group was led by a former White House science adviser and Los Alamos National Laboratory research head, George Cowan. His co-conspirators ...
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