The economics of science
Subtitle: a critical realist overview
By: David Tyfield
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780415498357; 9780415688765; 9780203162798
Subjects: Science; Economic aspects
Description: "This book argues that the fundamental underlying problem in all cases is the ontological shallowness of these theories, which can only be remedied by attention to ontological presuppositions. Conversely, a critical realist approach affords the integration of a realist political economy into the analysis of the economics of science that does afford explicit attention to these crucial questions; a 'cultural political economy of research and innovation' (CPERI). Accordingly, the book sets out an introduction to the existing literature on the economics of science together with novel discussion of the field from a critical realist perspective. In arguing thus across levels of abstraction, however, the book also explores how concerted engagement with substantive social enquiry and theoretical debate develops and strengthens critical realism as a philosophical project, rather than simply 'applying' it."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The commercialisation of science and the construction of the knowledge-based bio-economy; title: The KBBE reality; title: the case of agriculture; title: Intellectual property rights and the global commodification of knowledge; title: Privatizing Chinese science : national development vs. neoliberal financialization; title: Critical realism and the importance of ontological attention; title: Critical realism and beyond in economics; title: The realist transcendental argument.