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The Effortless Economy of Science? (Paperback)
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The Effortless Economy of Science? (Paperback)
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A leading scholar of the history and philosophy of economic
thought, Philip Mirowski argues that there has been a top-to-bottom
transformation in how scientific research is organized and funded
in Western countries over the past two decades and that these
changes necessitate a reexamination of the ways that science and
economics interact. Mirowski insists on the need to bring together
the insights of economics, science studies, and the philosophy of
science in order to understand how and why particular research
programs get stabilized through interdisciplinary appropriation,
controlled attributions of error, and funding restrictions.
Mirowski contends that neoclassical economists have persistently
presumed and advanced an "effortless economy of science," a
misleading model of a self-sufficient and conceptually
self-referential social structure that transcends market operations
in pursuit of absolute truth. In the stunning essays collected
here, he presents a radical critique of the ways that neoclassical
economics is used to support, explain, and legitimate the current
social practices underlying the funding and selection of
"successful" science projects. He questions a host of theories,
including the portraits of science put forth by Karl Popper,
Michael Polanyi, and Thomas Kuhn. Among the many topics he examines
are the social stabilization of quantitative measurement, the
repressed history of econometrics, and the social construction of
the laws of supply and demand and their putative opposite, the gift
economy. In The Effortless Economy of Science? Mirowski moves
beyond grand abstractions about science, truth, and democracy in
order to begin to talk about the way science is lived and practiced
today.
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