[lbo-talk] NASA pays for itself?

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Wed Mar 4 11:23:17 PST 2009


On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, John Thornton wrote:


> Surely the GAO tracks NASA's revenue generating activities?

NASA has revenue generating activities?

I suspect your student must thinking of some calculation that sets the goverment's cumulative expenditures on NASA beside some calculation of the cumulative GDP gains that come from its spinoffs. It wouldn't take much imagination to make that come out positive. But besides being fantasy economics, I'm not sure it's a way of thinking to encourage. Many of the greatest technological advances in history have come from war. Does that make war good?

Michael



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