Science-Mart: Privatizing American Science

This trenchant study analyzes the rise and decline in the quality and format of science in America...
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Author: Philip Mirowski
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Science-Mart: Privatizing American Science by Mirowski, Philip

Science-Mart: Privatizing American Science

$207.63

Science-Mart: Privatizing American Science

$207.63
Author: Philip Mirowski
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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 corporations became the largest funders of research. 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. 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 science--once the envy of the world--must be more than just another way to make money.



Author: Philip Mirowski
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 04/01/2011
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.93lbs
Size: 9.36h x 6.42w x 1.42d
ISBN: 9780674046467


Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 03/11/2011 pg. 16
Choice 08/01/2011
Reference and Research Bk News 04/01/2011 pg. 265

About the Author
Mirowski, Philip: - Philip Mirowski is Carl Koch Professor of Economics and the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame.

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