The Effortless Economy of Science?Duke University Press, 2004 - 463 стор. 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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... objective correlatives which compare to the panoply of legal and social rules and norms of actual markets . The fact that I advocate an alternative theoretical account of the operation of markets ( 2002 ; see chapter 1 below ) ...
... objectives are frequently as much a post hoc rationalization of events as they were forces that helped bring them to fruition . In such instances , legitimacy is always an ongoing construction project ; and the university is one of the ...
... objectives by contrasting them with those of Philip Kitcher . From one perspective , this stands as a tribute to his work , since he is the fin de siècle philosopher who perceived long before his peers that the philoso- phy of science ...
... objectives independent of those imposed by society or held by individuals , and yet , incongruously , that something must be done to protect science from the inappropriate en- croachments and corrupting demands of a societal nature ...
... objectives . In support of that prognosis , the social approach is beginning to be put to use by science studies scholars like Trevor Pinch to counter ungrounded assertions that sociological factors never influence " solid " scientific ...
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Confessions of an Aging Enfant Terrible | 37 |
Science as an Economic Phenomenon | 51 |
On Playing the Economics Card in the Philosophy of Science Why It Didnt Work for Michael Polanyi | 53 |
Economics Science and Knowledge Polanyi versus Hayek | 72 |
Whats Kuhn Got to Do with It? | 85 |
The Economic Consequences of Philip Kitcher | 97 |
Reengineering Scientific Credit in the Era of the Globalized Information Economy | 116 |
Rigorous Quantitative Measurement as a Social Phenomenon | 145 |
Why Econometricians Dont Replicate Although They Do Reproduce | 213 |
From Mandelbrot to Chaos in Economic Theory | 229 |
Mandelbrots Economics after a QuarterCentury | 251 |
Episodes from the History of the Laws of Supply and Demand | 271 |
The Collected Economic Works of William Thomas Thornton An Introduction and Justification | 273 |
Smooth Operator How Marshalls Demand and Supply Curves Made Neo classicism Safe for Public Consumption but Unfit for Science | 335 |
Problems in the Paternity of Econometrics | 357 |
Refusing the Gift | 376 |
Looking for Those Natural Numbers Dimensionless Constants and the Idea of Natural Measurement | 147 |
A Visible Hand in the Marketplace of Ideas Precision Measurement as Arbitrage | 169 |
Is Econometrics an Empirical Endeavor? | 193 |
Brewing Betting and Rationality in London 18221844 What Econometrics Can and Cannot Tell Us about the Historical Actors | 195 |
Notes | 401 |
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