May's books of the month

"They are interested in determining the optimal mixture of firms, policies, and government institutions that can foster radical path-breaking innovations."

May I ask whether the book defines radical innovations?

Sorry, "whether" in the above post should be "how". Innovation is rarely differentiated between radical and whatever isn't radical, and I would be interested to know the criteria they use for making the distinction.

I was taught international security by Stephan Halper a few years back - "as rants go, it's an interesting rant." - absolutely.

The guy is pretty angry, he was a security advisor to the white house across four presidents (he may have managed a political campaign for George Bush Senior at one point), but fell out of politics over the iraq thing, which he is not happy about... have a feeling that would have been made clear in the book....

dan, i remember you saying you were reading lukacs book on kennan. did you ever post your thoughts on that? what did you think of it?