Dan Traficonte

I’m happy to share that my book “Traders, Speculators and Captains of Industry: How Capitalist Legitimacy Shaped Foreign Investment Policy in India,” published by @harvardpress.bsky.social is out!

Is this from the Steelman Report?

The Legal Determinants of Health: From Incarceration to Accessibility  Author(s): Dolan, Brian; McMullin, Juliet | Abstract: The Legal Determinants of Health: From Incarceration to Accessibility brings together six cutting-edge essays that expose how legal systems—through incarceration, detention, disability law, tort doctrine, and human subjects research—profoundly shape health outcomes and perpetuate structural inequality. From forced sterilizations in prisons to the hidden burdens of self-accommodation, the authors reveal how law can both cause and conceal harm, especially among marginalized populations. Blending bioethics, legal history, disability studies, and public health, this volume challenges readers to rethink what justice and autonomy mean in environments defined by surveillance, stigma, and institutional neglect—and calls for bold legal and structural reforms to achieve genuine health equity.

Professor @katmacfarlane.bsky.social essay Self-Accommodation has been published in the University of California Health Humanities Press collection “Legal Determinants of Health: From Incarceration to Accessibility,” edited by Brian Dolan and Juliet McMullin. escholarship.org/uc/item/96j9...

Thanks Kat!!

Some charts for those who don't know the extent of the US public (and private) investment in research (particularly in biomedical research) compared to other countries and institutions. The destruction of the US' scientific institutions has global implications.

In his Article, @dtraficonte.bsky.social offers the first comprehensive analysis of government research, examining its institutional design, comparative advantages, and normative justifications, and situating it as an indispensable paradigm within the national innovation system.

Wow thanks so much, Brett! Much appreciated.

Thanks David!

It draws directly from work by @patentscholar.bsky.social, @nicholson.bsky.social, @danielhemel.bsky.social, @akapczynski.bsky.social, @brettfrischmann.bsky.social and many others

Excited that my new article is now out in the @yalelawjournal.bsky.social! The article takes a look at intramural research (R&D funded and performed by the government) from an innovation law perspective: yalelawjournal.org/article/gove...

Is China an Engineering or Developmental State? Breakneck is excellent, but could use a touch more developmental thinking.

In my review of Dan Wang's Breakneck, I argue that China’s trajectory looks less unique—and less puzzling—when viewed through the lens of the developmental state, a framework long used to explain the (also building-heavy) rise of Japan and Korea.

www.valueadded.tech/p/is-china-a...

The ongoing denigration of expertise, science, and the research enterprise will have both short- and long-term costs for human health and lives

See this chart for one stark example: NIH funding has dramatically slowed down.

Grant awards are down *$3 billion* so far, compared to same time period last year

I asked the White House to explain.

“This is not a researcher entitlement program,” said an official, defending their new approach.

A major advantage of state-sponsored science — particularly in-house government R&D — is (or was?) the avoidance of the low-risk short-termism of corporate research

Trump admin may think corporate R&D alone can maintain national tech competitiveness — a pre-WW2 idea that every country with the means to do so has since abandoned

We could add to @quinnslobodian.com’s analogy Trump’s gutting of state capacity — SA is famously reliant on outside “experts” from McKinsey et al for any and all major decisions