The Economics of Science: A Critical Realist Overview: Volume 1: Illustrations and Philosophical Preliminaries

by David Tyfield

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Dramatic and controversial changes in the funding of science over the past two decades, towards its increasing commercialization, have stimulated a huge literature trying to set out an "economics of science". Whether broadly in favour or against these changes, the vast majority of these frameworks employ ahistorical analyses that cannot conceptualise, let alone address, the questions of "why have these changes occurred?" and "why now?" Nor, therefore,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0415688795

ISBN13:9780415688796

Release Date:November 2011

Publisher:Routledge

Length:234 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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