Engineers and Scientists as Commercial Agents of the Spanish Nuclear Programme
| Autor: | Joseba De la Torre, Gloria Sanz Lafuente, M. d. Mar Rubio-Varas |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Universidad Pública de Navarra - Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Inarbe - Institute for Advanced Research in Business and Economics, Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Economía, Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Ekonomia Saila |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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060106 history of social sciences
media_common.quotation_subject Public administration Dictatorship Modernization theory West germany German State (polity) Political science 0502 economics and business 0601 history and archaeology Nuclear program media_common business.industry 05 social sciences Engineers 06 humanities and the arts Nuclear power 16. Peace & justice language.human_language Spanish nuclear program Facilitator language Scientists business 050203 business & management |
| Zdroj: | Technology and Globalisation ISBN: 9783319754499 Academica-e: Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Pública de Navarra Universidad Pública de Navarra Technology and Globalisation Academica-e. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Pública de Navarra instname |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-75450-5_12 |
| Popis: | The unique nature of the technological, financial and managerial decisions of the civil uses of nuclear power granted a leading role to engineers and scientists employed by the state and private companies in the USA, West Germany and the UK. But in less-developed countries too, such as Spain, the nuclear programme was started and influenced by a small group of engineers and scientists who operated as agents of economic modernization in the decision-making framework of a dictatorship. Making use of new archival sources, this chapter identifies three of these actors: two Spanish industrial engineers and executive directors, Jaime MacVeigh and Manuel Gutierrez-Cortines, and the German scientist Karl Wirtz as facilitator. These three players performed strategic roles in the Spanish nuclear programme. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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