The economics of science a critical realist overview. Volume 1, Illustrations and philosophical preliminaries Volume 1, Illustrations and philosophical preliminaries /
Dramatic and controversial changes in the funding of science over the past two decades, towards its increasing commercialization, have stimulated a huge literature trying to set out an ""economics of science"". Whether broadly in favour or against these changes, the vast majority...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
| Colección: | Ontological explorations.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627793306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- THE ECONOMICSOF SCIENCE:A CRITICAL REALISTOVERVIEWVolume 1:Illustrations and philosophicalpreliminaries; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; List of abbreviations; Preface and acknowledgements; SECTION I Introduction; 1 Introduction: towards a critical political economy of science (or why the economics of science cannot be an economics of science!?); SECTION II The commercialisation of science and the construction of the knowledge-based bio-economy; 2 The knowledge-based bio-economy: knowledge and nature as sources of value?; 3 The KBBE reality: the case of agriculture
- 4 Intellectual property rights and the global commodification of knowledge5 Privatising Chinese science: national development versus neoliberal financialisation; SECTION III Critical realism and the importance of ontological attention; 6 Towards a critical realist economics: refinements to 'realism'; 7 Critical realism and beyond in economics; 8 The realist transcendental argument; Notes; References; Index
