Science-Mart - Privatizing American Science

Informationen zum Autor Philip Mirowski is Carl Koch Professor of Economics and the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame. Klappentext This trenchant study analyzes the rise and decline in the quality and format of science in America since World War II. "Science-Mart" attributes this decline to a powerful neoliberal ideology in the 1980s which saw the fruits of scientific investigation as commodities that could be monetized, rather than as a public good. Zusammenfassung This trenchant study analyzes the rise and decline in the quality and format of science in America since World War II. Science-Mart attributes this decline to a powerful neoliberal ideology in the 1980s which saw the fruits of scientific investigation as commodities that could be monetized! rather than as a public good.

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• Authors: Philip Mirowski, Philip Mirowski
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2011
• EAN: 9780674046467
• ISBN: 978-0-674-04646-7
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 33 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Philosophy of Science, Business & management, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Economic history, intellectual property law, History and Archaeology, Development economics and emerging economies