## Thursday, April 20, 2006

### Money

A very brief post. The new estimate for the cost of ongoing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan is approaching $10B/month. For the foreseeable future. That's the entire NSF annual budget every 17 days. Remember that service on the national debt is also on the order of$20B/month. And the national debt is increasing at a rate of more than $2B/day. Some say to properly normalize those numbers you must remember that the GDP of the US is on the order of$12T/yr. Of course, it's also important to consider that 20% of all tax revenue in the US now goes to paying the debt service. How one can argue that this is all healthy is beyond me.

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The trouble is that the supply of scientists is relatively inelastic so diverting all that extra money to science might not make much of a difference.

The supply of defense contractors and soldiers, on the other hand...

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You're right about the inelastic supply of scientists, but the issue right now is that funds are so scarce, the current supply is not sustainable. The (anecdotal, based on panelists I know) success rate on renewal proposals to the engineering side of NSF is around 10%. That means that successful, productive scientists are frequently unable to keep their funding b/c resources are so tight. Now, one could make an argument that we just have too many researchers out there, but I find that hard to believe. The US is spending something like 0.5% of its GDP on all federally supported science research, including NIH and DOD. This worries me, and not just because I've got (academic) mouths to feed.

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