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On the transformative role of greed in global science and technology during the 1980s.
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Michael D. Gordin is the Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University, where he is the dean of the college. He is the author of Einstein in Bohemia.
W. Patrick McCray is a professor in the department of history at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the author of Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture.
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