Module 3.2 Markets and Technology
(Development in progress)
How do markets influence technology and innovation and how are they managed in a global economy? What are the security implications?
Introduction
Policy
Learning objectives
- • Understand engineering interactions with the economy
- • Understand engineering interactions with society, resilience
- • Understand engineering interactions with health, safety, and law
Required reading (372)
This is the stuff students must read; not more than an hour or two for the 372 class
Other links and references (374)
- • Holmes (2012) foreign ownership and control
- • Pielke (2007) identifies a range of options for individual scientists about positions on policy and politics
- • Page (2015) what the PBO is supposed to do and how [see also technical ToR from Library of Parliament] i.e. political control over large defence expenditures with technical downstream…
Futures for capitalism, implications for S&T
- • The close and symbiotic relationship between capitalism and S&T: STCapitalinequalitylabour replacementconcentrationinstability
- • Mulgan (2013) There are predators and creators in capitalism, and the balance may determine whether capitalism survives as a productive system
- • (also see Milanovic, Streeck, Schumpeter, Friedman, Zuboff)
Risks and risk analysis
- • Harrison and Hoberg (1994) regulating toxic substances
- • Holmes (2012) regulating foreign ownership
- • Oudot (2005) Risk allocation in the defence sector
- • Waterstone (1992) Risk and Society: The Interaction of Science, Technology and Public Policy
- • Beck (2013) World at Risk
- • Etkin (2016) Disaster risk and risk society (Beck and Giddens) See also Zolli about risk homeostasis (194-196)
- • How to do a risk analysis? For what purpose? (Yoe, Norman, Freund & Jones, Fenton & Neil)
Presentations
Lecture 1
A short description of what is included
Link to the slides
Lecture 2
A short description of what is included
Link to the slides
Seminar (for POE374, optional for POE372)
Key question in the seminar