Accounting and Science: Natural Inquiry and Commercial Reason

by Michael Power

Book Overview

In recent years policy makers and scientists have become increasingly interested in the economics of science, and in particular in the relationship between accounting and science. This book, originally published as a special issue of the journal Science in Context , provides a truly interdisciplinary approach to this subject. The contributors explore, in a number of different ways, the constitutive role that practices of economic calculation play...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521556996
• ISBN13: 9780521556996
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"