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The Effortless Economy of Science?

The Effortless Economy of Science?

  • Auteur: Mirowski, Philip
  • Éditeur: Duke University Press
  • Collection: Science and Cultural Theory
  • ISBN: 9780822333104
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780822385646
  • Lieu de publication:  Durham , United States
  • Année de publication électronique: 2004
  • Mois : Juillet
  • Pages: 472
  • DDC: 338.9/26
  • Langue: Anglais
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.

  • Contents
  • Part One. From Economic to Science Studies
    • Introduction: Cracks, Hidden Passageways, and False Bottoms: The Economics of Science and Social Studies of Economics
    • Chapter 1. Confessions of an Aging Enfant Terrible
  • Part Two. Science as an Economic Phenomenon
    • Chapter 2. On Playing the Economics Card in the Philosophy of Science: Why It Didn't Work for Michael Polanyi
    • Chapter 3. Economics, Science, and Knowledge: Polanyi versus Hayek
    • Chapter 4. What's Kuhn Got to Do with It?
    • Chapter 5. The Economic Consequences of Philip Kitcher
    • Chapter 6. Re-engineering Scientific Credit in the Era of the Globalized Information Economy
  • Part Three. Rigorous Quantitative Measurement as a Social Phenomenon
    • Chapter 7. Looking for Those Natural Numbers: Dimensionless Constants and the Idea of Natural Measurement
    • Chapter 8. A Visible Hand in the Marketplace of Ideas: Precision Measurement as Arbitrage
  • Part Four. Is Econometrics an Empirical Endeavor?
    • Chapter 9. Brewing, Betting, and Rationality in London, 1822-1844: What Econometrics Can and Cannot Tell Us about Historical Actors
    • Chapter 10. Why Econometricians Don't Replicate (Although They Do Reproduce)
    • Chapter 11. From Mandelbrot to Chaos in Economic Theory
    • Chapter 12. Mandelbrot's Economics after a Quarter-Century
  • Part Five. Episodes from the History of the "Laws of Supply and Demand"
    • Chapter 13. The Collected Economic Works of William Thomas Thornton: An Introduction and Justification
    • Chapter 14. Smooth Operator: How Marshall's Demand and Supply Curves Made Neoclassicism Safe for Public Consumption but Unfit for Science
    • Chapter 15. Problems in the Paternity of Econometrics: Henry Ludwell Moore
    • Chapter 16. Refusing the Gift
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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