Science bought and sold essays in the economics of science

"A serious reconsideration of the 'economics of science' is long overdue," say Philip Mirowski and Esther-Mirjam Sent in the introduction to Science Bought and Sold. Indeed, it is only recently that one could speak of a field of economics of science at all. Although it has long b...

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Otros Autores: Mirowski, Philip, 1951- (-), Sent, Esther-Mirjam, 1967-
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press 2002
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Acceso en línea:Sumario
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PART I Science at the Turn of the Millennium
  • 1 The Emergence of a Competitiveness Research and Development Policy Coalition and the Commercialization of Academic Science and Technology (1996)
  • Sheila Slaughter and Gary Rhoades 69
  • 2 Recent Science: Late-Modern and Postmodern (1997)
  • Paul Forman 109
  • PART II Science Conceived as a Production Process
  • 3 The Simple Economics of Basic Scientific Research
  • (1959)
  • Richard R. Nelson 151
  • 4 Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention (1962)
  • Kenneth J. Arrow 165
  • PART III Science Conceived as a Problem of Information Processing
  • 5 Note on the Theory of the Economy of Research (1879)
  • Charles Sanders Peirce 183
  • 6 Charles Sanders Peirce's Economy of Research (1994)
  • James R. Wible 191
  • 7 Toward a New Economics of Science (1994)
  • Partha Dasgupta and Paul A. David 219
  • 8 The Organization of Cognitive Labor (1993)
  • Philip Kitcher 249
  • PART IV Science Conceived as an Economic Network of Limited Agents
  • 9 From Science as an Economic Activity to Socioeconomics of Scientific Research: The Dynamics of Emergent and Consolidated Techno-economic Networks
  • Michel Callon 277
  • 10 The Microeconomics of Academic Science
  • John Ziman 318
  • 11 A Formal Model of Theory Choice in Science (1999)
  • William A. Brock and Steven N. Durlauf 341
  • 12 Scientists as Agents
  • Stephen Turner 362
  • PART V Contours of the Globalized Privatization Regime
  • 13 Making British Universities Accountable: In the Public Interest?
  • Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap 387
  • 14 The Importance of Implicit Contracts in Collaborative Scientific Research
  • Paula E. Stephan and Sharon G. Levin 412
  • 15 Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education (1998)
  • David F. Noble 431
  • 16 The Road Not Taken: Revisiting the Original New Deal (2000)
  • Steve Fuller 444
  • PART VI The Future of Scientific "Credit"
  • 17 The Republic of Science: Its Political and Economic Theory (1969)
  • Michael Polanyi 465
  • 18 The Instability of Authorship: Credit and Responsibility in Contemporary Biomedicine (1998)
  • Mario Biagioli 486
  • 19 The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: Some Thoughts on the Possibilities (1994)
  • D. Wade Hands 515.