Science bought and sold: essays in the economics of science

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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