Science Bought and Sold

Essays in the Economics of Science

By: Philip Mirowski (Editor), Esther-Mirjam Sent (Editor)

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"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

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Science at the Turn of the Millennium
The Emergence of a Competitiveness Research and Development Policy Coalition and the Commercialization of Academic Science and Technology (1996)	p. 69
Recent Science: Late-Modern and Postmodern (1997)	p. 109
Science Conceived as a Production Process
The Simple Economics of Basic Scientific Research (1959)	p. 151
Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention (1962)	p. 165
Science Conceived as a Problem of Information Processing
Note on the Theory of the Economy of Research (1879)	p. 183
Charles Sanders Peirce's Economy of Research (1994)	p. 191
Toward a New Economics of Science (1994)	p. 219
The Organization of Cognitive Labor (1993)	p. 249
Science Conceived as an Economic Network of Limited Agents
From Science as an Economic Activity to Socioeconomics of Scientific Research: The Dynamics of Emergent and Consolidated Techno-economic Networks	p. 277
The Microeconomics of Academic Science	p. 318
A Formal Model of Theory Choice in Science (1999)	p. 341
Scientists as Agents	p. 362
Contours of the Globalized Privatization Regime
Making British Universities Accountable: In the Public Interest?	p. 387
The Importance of Implicit Contracts in Collaborative Scientific Research	p. 412
Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education (1998)	p. 431
The Road Not Taken: Revisiting the Original New Deal (2000)	p. 444
The Future of Scientific "Credit"
The Republic of Science: Its Political and Economic Theory (1969)	p. 465
The Instability of Authorship: Credit and Responsibility in Contemporary Biomedicine (1998)	p. 486
The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: Some Thoughts on the Possibilities (1994)	p. 515
List of Contributors	p. 549
Index	p. 557
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