Public or Private Economies of Knowledge?: Turbulence in the Biological Sciences

by Mark Harvey

The 'great divide' between public and private knowledge in capitalism is an unstable frontier at the core of contemporary economic transformations. Based on research in the USA, Europe and Brazil into the cutting edge of biological science and technology, this book presents a novel framework for understanding this historically shifting fault-line.Over the last quarter of a century, major controversies have accompanied the dramatic developments in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848447019
• ISBN13: 9781848447011
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages