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Science-Mart - Privatizing American Science (Hardcover)
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Science-Mart - Privatizing American Science (Hardcover)
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This 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 1980s, 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.
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