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U.S. patents increased by 31 percent in fields common among Jewish scientists who fled Nazi Germany for America, according to Stanford economist Petra Moser. Their innovative influence rippled outward for generations, as the emigres attracted new researchers who then trained other up-and-comers. Anecdotal accounts suggest that the arrival of German Jewish emigres to America who were fleeing the Nazi regime in the 1930s revolutionized U.S. science and innovation.
But this claim has never been empirically confirmed until now, thanks to new research by a Stanford economist. Petra Moser, an assistant professor of economics at Stanford, found that the number of U.S. patents increased by 31 percent after 1933 in fields common among those who emigrated from Germany, according to her research paper. In fact, these scientists and inventors led a transformation of American innovation in the post-World War II period.
"German Jewish emigres had a huge effect on U.S. innovation," Moser said in an interview. "They helped increase the quality of research by training a new generation of American scientists, who then became productive researchers in their own rights."
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday August 16 2014, @08:42AM
Seems like nothing can be said. Even history is swallowed by present atrocity. But the silence itself is telling. Apartheid fell, not because it was not willing to use any amount of violence, but because it gained the disapproval of the rest of the world. We are coming close to this, even if no one dares say it. No one has to say it. "Bro, you messing up!" Intervention?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday August 16 2014, @12:36PM
It has been toxic in the past, but we are past its peak toxicity. John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard, the fathers of modern International Relations theory, authored a paper in 2006, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" [uchicago.edu] that exposed how the U.S.'s relationship with Israel brings it no benefits at all and possibly hurts it more than having no relationship would. In the same year, President Jimmy Carter, the only person in the world who has successfully brokered peace between Israel and Arabs, published a book [wikipedia.org] that called Israel an apartheid state. Those are some pretty high-profile, unassailable critics of Israel and its policies.
Washington DC delenda est.