Science-Mart: Privatizing American Science
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (719 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674046463 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 464 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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(T. Mirowski's wide-ranging research addresses a dazzling array of topics, which he situates historically and fuses into a compelling critique that will fascinate any reader concerned with the economic and social dimensions of modern science and technology. Mirowski never shies away from controversy and presents his case clearly and persuasively in an effective, engaging, and humorous style. Eminently thought-provoking, this book places the contemporary economics of science in a context that combines political economy and intellectual history. Timmons Choice 2011-08-01) . (Donald MacKenzie, author of An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets)Science-Mart is timely and important in a sense that goes beyond a specialist contribution. (Theodore M. Porte
Philip Mirowski is Carl Koch Professor of Economics and the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame.
more to come? Definitely worth a read for any practising scientist or anyone interested in public science (academia, etc.). Given the trend in funding and privatization, I wonder whether this will be the first of many books to come on the subject. The book is up to date and the subject is highly relevant. Very readable if not a little colloquial (and opinionated) at times.
At the same time, corporations shed their in-house research laboratories, contracting with independent firms both in the States and abroad to supply new products. Among such firms were AT&T and IBM, whose outstanding research laboratories during much of the twentieth century produced Nobel Prize–winning work in chemistry and physics, ranging from the transistor to superconductivity.Science-Mart offers a provocative, learned, and timely critique, of interest to anyone concerned that American scienceonce the envy of the worldmust be more than just another way to make money.. This trenchant study analyzes the rise and decline in the quality and format of science in America since World War II.During the Cold War, the U.S. Philip Mirowski argues that a powerful neoliberal ideology promoted a radically different view of knowledge and discovery: the fruits of scientific investigation are not a public good that should be freely available to all, but are commodities that could be monetized.Consequently, patent and intellectual property laws were greatly strengthened, universities demanded patents on the discoveries of their faculty, information sharing among researchers was impeded, and the line between universities and corporations began to blur. Starting in the 1980s, however, this