LEADER 04405nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910966254603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780674061132 010 $a0674061136 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674061132 035 $a(CKB)2670000000275239 035 $a(EBL)3301138 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000721708 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11475709 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000721708 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10694119 035 $a(PQKB)11534890 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301138 035 $a(DE-B1597)178242 035 $a(OCoLC)812253935 035 $a(OCoLC)840440188 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674061132 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301138 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10607301 035 $a(OCoLC)923118837 035 $a(Perlego)3581347 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000275239 100 $a20100929d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aScience-mart $eprivatizing American science /$fPhilip Mirowski 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (464 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780414032972 311 08$a0414032977 311 08$a9780674046467 311 08$a0674046463 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 391-447) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tIndex --$t1. Viridiana Jones and the Temple of Mammon. Or, Adventures in Neoliberal Science Studies --$tI Why We Should Not Depend Upon the Existing Content of an "Economics of Science" --$t2 The "Economics of Science" as Repeat Offender --$tII A Modern Economic History of Science Organization --$t3. Regimes of American Science Organization --$t4 Lovin' Intellectual Property and Livin' with the MTA. Retracting Research Tools --$t5 Pharma's Market. New Horizons in Outsourcing in the Modern Globalized Regime --$tIII Where We Are Headed --$t6 Has Science Been "Harmed" by the Modern Commercial Regime? --$t7 The New Production of Ignorance. The Dirty Secret of the New Knowledge Economy --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aThis trenchant study analyzes the rise and decline in the quality and format of science in America since World War II. During the Cold War, the U.S. government amply funded basic research in science and medicine. Starting in the 1980's, however, this support began to decline and for-profit corporations became the largest funders of research. Philip Mirowski argues that a powerful neoliberal ideology promoted a radically different view of knowledge and discovery: the fruits of scientific investigation are not a public good that should be freely available to all, but are commodities that could be monetized. Consequently, patent and intellectual property laws were greatly strengthened, universities demanded patents on the discoveries of their faculty, information sharing among researchers was impeded, and the line between universities and corporations began to blur. At the same time, corporations shed their in-house research laboratories, contracting with independent firms both in the States and abroad to supply new products. Among such firms were AT&T and IBM, whose outstanding research laboratories during much of the twentieth century produced Nobel Prize-winning work in chemistry and physics, ranging from the transistor to superconductivity. Science-Mart offers a provocative, learned, and timely critique, of interest to anyone concerned that American science-once the envy of the world-must be more than just another way to make money. 606 $aScience$xEconomic aspects$zUnited States 606 $aResearch$xEconomic aspects$zUnited States 606 $aPrivatization$zUnited States 606 $aScience$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aScience$zUnited States$xHistory$y21st century 615 0$aScience$xEconomic aspects 615 0$aResearch$xEconomic aspects 615 0$aPrivatization 615 0$aScience$xHistory 615 0$aScience$xHistory 676 $a338.973/06 700 $aMirowski$b Philip$f1951-$053655 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910966254603321 996 $aScience-mart$94361475 997 $aUNINA