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Terence Kealey joins us for a discussion about publicly funding scientific research. Should science be funded by the government?
This week we’re joined by Terence Kealey, Vice-Chancellor Emeritus at the University of Buckingham, to talk about the public funding of scientific research.
Many people believe that science and research are public goods and thus need financial support from the government. But is science really a public good? How does government money sway scientific results? If we got rid of public funding, what would happen to scientific research?
Show Notes and Further Reading
“Does Public Funding of Science Enhance Scientific Progress?” (Cato Policy Forum Video)
Terence Kealey, The Economic Laws of Scientific Research (book)
“The Sources of Economic Growth in OECD Countries” (OECD Study)
Terence Kealey is Vice-Chancellor Emeritus at the University of Buckingham and author of The Economic Laws of Scientific Research (1997) among other books.
Aaron Powell founded Libertarianism.org. He is now the host of (Re)Imagining Liberty, a podcast about the case for radical freedom.
Trevor Burrus was a research fellow in the Cato Institute’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies and editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review. His research interests include constitutional law, civil and criminal law, legal and political philosophy, legal history, and the interface between science and public policy.
He is the editor of A Conspiracy against Obamacare (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Deep Commitments: The Past, Present, and Future of Religious Liberty (Cato, 2017). Burrus holds a BA in philosophy from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a JD from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. He also contributed a chapter to Libertarianism.org’s Visions of Liberty.