Science Bought and Sold: Essays in the Economics of Science

by Philip Mirowski

Book Overview

"A serious reconsideration of the 'economics of science' is long overdue," say Philip Mirowski and Esther-Mirjam Sent in the introduction to Science Bought and Sold. Indeed, it is only recently that one could speak of a field of economics of science at all. Although it has long been accepted that economics can provide useful tools with which to understand science, economics has only lately shifted its focus to the economic agent as information...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226538575
• ISBN13: 9780226538570
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 580 Pages
• Weight: 1.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"