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PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press

ISBN-100226538575

ISBN-139780226538570

eBay Product ID (ePID)1726204

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Number of Pages580 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameScience Bought and Sold : Essays in the Economics of Science

SubjectPhilosophy & Social Aspects, General, Economics / General, Research, Essays

Publication Year2002

TypeNot Available

Subject AreaReference, Science, Business & Economics

AuthorEsther-Mirjam Sent

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight28.5 Oz

Item Length0.9 in

Item Width0.6 in

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LCCN2001-042486

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal338.4/70014

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Introduction: Philip Mirowski and Esther-Mirjam Sent 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 2. Recent Science: Late-Modern and Postmodern (1997), Paul Forman Part II: Science Conceived as a Production Process 3. The Simple Economics of Basic Scientific Research (1959), Richard R. Nelson 4. Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention (1962), Kenneth J. Arrow Part III: Science Conceived as a Problem of Information Processing 5. Note on the Theory of the Economy of Research (1879), Charles Sanders Peirce 6. Charles Sanders Peirce's Economy of Research (1994), James R. Wible 7. Toward a New Economics of Science (1994), Partha Dasgupta and Paul A. David 8. The Organization of Cognitive Labor (1993), Philip Kitcher 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 10. The Microeconomics of Academic Science, John Ziman 11. A Formal Model of Theory Choice in Science (1999), William A. Brock and Steven N. Durlauf 12. Scientists as Agents, Stephen Turner Part V: Contours of the Globalized Privatization Regime 13. Making British Universities Accountable: In the Public Interest? Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap 14. The Importance of Implicit Contracts in Collaborative Scientific Research, Paula E. Stephan and Sharon G. Levin 15. Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education (1998), David F. Noble 16. The Road Not Taken: Revisiting the Original New Deal (2000), Steve Fuller Part VI: The Future of Scientific "Credit" 17. The Republic of Science: Its Political and Economic Theory from Knowing and Being (1969), Michael Polanyi 18. The Instability of Authorship: Credit and Responsibility in Contemporary Biomedicine (1998), Mario Biagioli 19. The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: Some Thoughts on the Possibilities (1994), D. Wade Hands List of Contributors Index

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

SynopsisAlthough it has long been accepted that economics can provide tools with which to understand science, economics has shifted its focus to the economic agent as information processor., "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 been accepted that economics can provide useful tools with which to understand science, economics has only lately shifted its focus to the economic agent as information processor, making it more broadly applicable to science. Bringing together central themes in this emerging discipline, the editors have assembled important articles that provide a wider context and background against which the economics of science can be evaluated. Roughly one-third of the essays presented here are original papers, and the rest are critical articles previously published in the field. From essays examining economic welfare to the idea of scientists as agents to the digital aspects of higher education, Science Bought and Sold presents a comprehensive overview of the new directions of this expanding area. Contributors: Kenneth J. Arrow Mario Biagioli William A. Brock Michel Callon Partha Dasgupta Paul A. David Steven N. Durlauf Paul Forman Steve Fuller D. Wade Hands Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap Philip Kitcher Sharon G. Levin Richard R. Nelson David F. Noble Michael Polanyi Gary Rhoades Charles Sanders Peirce Sheila Slaughter Paula E. Stephan Stephen Turner James R. Wible John Ziman

LC Classification NumberQ180.55.E25S33 2002