Griliches, Zvi - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 6 (1992) 4, pp. 3-5
A few months ago, Congress overruled the peer review process of the National Science Foundation. A congressional aide looked over the list of NSF grants, decided that 31 of them had titles unworthy of funding, and a conference committee voted on May 21 to cut off those grants. The cuts were made...
