The obvious way to get scientists and engineers away from weapons laboratories is to stop offering the incentives that draw them there. Press refers to William Broad's "moral plea that young scientists resist the seductive attractions of military research." It is hardly surprising that … such pleas have not diverted many scientists from working for the military. I suggest instead that society direct the plea to public officials, to redirect the way our tax revenues are spent.
This is especially relevant to large-scale problems such as the interaction between productive forces and production relations, socialist ownership and the economic forms it takes, commodity….
Economic theory should and can resolve these problems. In order to do so it must be armed with an arsenal of the most up to date scientific methods, including the many and fast expanding possibilities of mathematics, cybernetics, and the mathematical theory of optimal management and microelectronics. ...
