SEMAINE D'ÉTUDE SUR LE ROLE DE L ANALYSE ECONOMETRIQUE ETC. 110,
which would suddenly change the whole structure of society
to make it fit for rapid development of science and economic
progress. The other alternative is deliberately to build up the
foundation of science-oriented education and research to pro-
mote the modernisation of society in a peaceful way, and make
conditions favourable for economic development.
7-4. Aid for scientific and economic development from either
the western or the eastern countries, even when given in a spirit
of competition, would be cooperative in effect. In any event,
competition in constructive tasks of building up scientific foun-
dations in developing countries is less dangerous and is likely
to be far more useful than competition in the methodologies
of warfare. Also, collaboration in promoting education and
research in pure science can be pursued without any threat
t0 national security or national interests, and would be of great
help in promoting a rapid advance of the underdeveloped coun-
tries and in fostering better understanding among the nations
of the world. The advanced countries have a great opportunity
for peaceful cooperation in giving aid for science
This pamphlet has not yet been published in any journal and is being
printed for private circulation. Certain aspects of these problems were
discussed by me in articles and addresses between 1955 and 1959 which
were reprinted in Talks on Planning (1961), and in other articles such as
A Note on Problems of Scientific Personnel (1959), Recent Developments
in the Organisation of Science in India (1959), and a lecture at Sofia
University in December 1961. Some of the ideas given in the present
pamphlet were presented by me before a Conference on International
Cooperation in Salzburg-Vienna in July 1962.
Professor P. M. S. Blackett in his presidential address to the British
Association for the Advancement of Science in 1957 and in other articles
in Nature, (3 February, 1962; May 1962 etc.) has considered various pro-
blems from the point of view of the advanced countries. Professor Stevan
Dedijer made a penetrating analysis in article in Nature (6 August, 1960)
and in another article published recentlv in Stockholm, TVF, 22, (1962)
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