The Effortless Economy of Science?Duke University Press, 2004 - 463 psl. 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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... things were descried and denatured in the second half of the twentieth century . It is true that the movement for a " value - free science " began in Germany in the early twentieth century ( Proctor 1991 ) , but it flourished , with a ...
... thing called " math- ematics " as if it were capable by itself of cutting the knot binding science and the economy . This is not to assert that everyone with a modicum of intellectual preten- sions withdrew altogether from the hybrid ...
... thing " and its obverse phenomenon , which is a contempt for the history of inquiry , and the ascendancy of postwar Ameri- can neoclassical economics as the lingua franca of public justification of any and all of the above - the high ...
... thing that stands out quite starkly in all three is the insistence by the biographers on the central importance of the " political economy " ( in the older sense of that term ) of each philosopher of science in governing many of his ...
... things out when they get a little testy . Curiously for one normally extolled as a clear writer , Kitcher then appears to think that piling on the neoclassical jargon will render this fancy more plausible : " [ W ] ith respect to each ...
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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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