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Machine generated contents note: 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 69 -- 2 Recent Science: Late-Modern and Postmodern (1997) -- Paul Forman 109 -- PART II Science Conceived as a Production Process -- 3 The Simple Economics of Basic Scientific Research -- (1959) -- Richard R. Nelson 151 -- 4 Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention (1962) -- Kenneth J. Arrow 165 -- PART III Science Conceived as a Problem of Information Processing -- 5 Note on the Theory of the Economy of Research (1879) -- Charles Sanders Peirce 183 -- 6 Charles Sanders Peirce's Economy of Research (1994) -- James R. Wible 191 -- 7 Toward a New Economics of Science (1994) -- Partha Dasgupta and Paul A. David 219 -- 8 The Organization of Cognitive Labor (1993) -- Philip Kitcher 249 -- 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 277 -- 10 The Microeconomics of Academic Science -- John Ziman 318 -- 11 A Formal Model of Theory Choice in Science (1999) -- William A. Brock and Steven N. Durlauf 341 -- 12 Scientists as Agents -- Stephen Turner 362 -- PART V Contours of the Globalized Privatization Regime -- 13 Making British Universities Accountable: In the Public Interest? -- Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap 387 -- 14 The Importance of Implicit Contracts in Collaborative Scientific Research -- Paula E. Stephan and Sharon G. Levin 412 -- 15 Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education (1998) -- David F. Noble 431 -- 16 The Road Not Taken: Revisiting the Original New Deal (2000) -- Steve Fuller 444 -- PART VI The Future of Scientific "Credit" -- 17 The Republic of Science: Its Political and Economic Theory (1969) -- Michael Polanyi 465 -- 18 The Instability of Authorship: Credit and Responsibility in Contemporary Biomedicine (1998) -- Mario Biagioli 486 -- 19 The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: Some Thoughts on the Possibilities (1994) -- D. Wade Hands 515

This set describes a broad range of approaches that challenge scientism for its lack of sensitivity to meanings, subjectivity and historical context. It brings together a selection of writings that encompass theory and methods as well as policy and practice

The sentience and suffering of animals is obvious to common sense, even if science and industry claim to be agnostic. Economic incentives to reduce the suffering of animals are welcome, but it is not clear whether animals can turn to science for help.

Die Vielfalt der Frauenbilder in der utopischen Literatur wird erläutert und kritisch kommentiert. Als herrschendes Frauenbild wird die derzeitige Wirklichkeit der amerikanischen Mittelklasse-Familie festgestellt; dabei wird die existierende Arbeits- und Rollenteilung zwischen den Geschlechtern in die weite Zukunft fortgeschrieben. Für die triviale Science-fiction wird eine Rückkehr in vergangene Zeiten herausgearbeitet, in der die Rollenverteilung antiquierten Mustern und Klischees entspricht, d. h. z. B., daß Frauen wichtig sein können als Preis oder Motiv, daß aktive Frauen immer böse erscheinen und daß sie passiv dargestellt werden. In der neueren Science-fiction finden sich teilweise gleichberechtigte Strukturen, es werden aber wichtige Bereiche der Arbeitsteilung ausgeklammert (z. B. Kindererziehung in der Familie); kuriose Gleichheitsformen sind ebenso vertreten wie die Konturen eines Matriarchats, in dem die Frauen überlegen sind. Für die von Frauen selbst verfaßte utopische Literatur wird nachgewiesen, daß ihre Frauenbilder aktivere und lebhaftere weibliche Charaktere zeichnen als die in den von Männern geschriebenen Texten. (HA)

"This volume is a one-of-a-kind contribution to applied social science and the product of a long collaboration between an established, interdisciplinary sociologist and a successful banking executive. Together, Neil Smelser and John Reed use a straightforward approach to presenting substantive social science knowledge and indicate its relevance and applicability to decision-making, problem-solving and policy-making. Among the areas presented are space-and-time coordinates of social life; cognition and bias; group and network effects; the role of sanctions; organizational dynamics; and macro-changes associated with economic development. Finally, the authors look at the big picture of why society at large demands and needs social-science knowledge, and how the academy actually supplies relevant knowledge."--

Combinatorial Materials Science describes new developments and research results in catalysts, biomaterials, and nanomaterials, together with informatics approaches to the analysis of Combinatorial Science (CombiSci) data. CombiSci has been used extensively in the pharmaceutical industry, but there is enormous potential in its application to materials design and characterization. Addressing advances and applications in both fields, Combinatorial Materials Science :.:.; Integrates the scientific fundamentals and interdisciplinary underpinnings required to develop and apply CombiSci concepts.; Di.

Open Science is enjoying great popularity at the moment. The European Union has recently adopted the term Open Science in its research framework programme. However, at the same time being mainstreamed into policy and administration it runs the risk of remaining empty rhetoric. The article examines terminological and actual realms of Open Science. It aims to identify gaps in the current discourse on one hand, and on the other to draw upon the potential of Open Science practices and its precursors. Situating Open Science in a broader picture of cultures of sharing helps to understand its promising role as change maker in traditional academic settings if necessary appreciation, skills and infrastructures are developed timely.

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