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The fortunes of social science within the American National Science Foundation

Mark Solovey: Social science for what? Battles over public funding for the “other sciences” at the National Science Foundation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020, 408 pp, $50 PB

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Reisch, G. The fortunes of social science within the American National Science Foundation. Metascience 30, 75–78 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-020-00583-3

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