Science-Mart : : Privatizing American Science /

Science-Mart : : Privatizing American Science / / Philip Mirowski.

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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. government amply funded basic research in science and medicine. Starting in the 1980s, however, this support began to decline and for-profit corporation...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2011
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Mirowski, Philip,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (462 p.) :; 15 graphs, 15 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Index
  • 1. Viridiana Jones and the Temple of Mammon. Or, Adventures in Neoliberal Science Studies
  • I Why We Should Not Depend Upon the Existing Content of an "Economics of Science"
  • 2 The "Economics of Science" as Repeat Offender
  • II A Modern Economic History of Science Organization
  • 3. Regimes of American Science Organization
  • 4 Lovin' Intellectual Property and Livin' with the MTA. Retracting Research Tools
  • 5 Pharma's Market. New Horizons in Outsourcing in the Modern Globalized Regime
  • III Where We Are Headed
  • 6 Has Science Been "Harmed" by the Modern Commercial Regime?
  • 7 The New Production of Ignorance. The Dirty Secret of the New Knowledge Economy
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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