Book review: Shaky foundations: the politics-patronage-social science nexus in Cold War America

"Shaky Foundations: The Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus in Cold War America." Mark Solovey. Rutgers University Press. April 2013. --- Numerous accounts have exposed the deep impact of sponsorship and patrons on the production of scientific knowledge and its applications. Shaky Foundations aims to examine a new patronage system for the social sciences in the USA that emerged in the early Cold War years, showing how social scientists were presented with new opportunities to work out the scientific identity, social implications, and public policy uses of academic social research. An important read exposing how money has functioned in determining the contemporary conditions of knowledge, writes Kye Barker.