The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Science

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-58127-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 486 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 861 g

Reihe: Routledge International Handbooks

The political economy of research and innovation (R&I) is one of the central issues of the early twenty-first century. ‘Science’ and ‘innovation’ are increasingly tasked with driving and reshaping a troubled global economy while also tackling multiple, overlapping global challenges, such as climate change or food security, global pandemics or energy security. But responding to these demands is made more complicated because R&I themselves are changing. Today, new global patterns of R&I are transforming the very structures, institutions and processes of science and innovation, and with it their claims about desirable futures. Our understanding of R&I needs to change accordingly.

Responding to this new urgency and uncertainty, this handbook presents a pioneering selection of the growing body of literature that has emerged in recent years at the intersection of science and technology studies and political economy. The central task for this research has been to expose important but consequential misconceptions about the political economy of R&I and to build more insightful approaches. This volume therefore explores the complex interrelations between R&I (both in general and in specific fields) and political economies across a number of key dimensions from health to environment, and universities to the military.

The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Science offers a unique collection of texts across a range of issues in this burgeoning and important field from a global selection of top scholars. The handbook is essential reading for students interested in the political economy of science, technology and innovation. It also presents succinct and insightful summaries of the state of the art for more advanced scholars.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tyfield, David

Lave, Rebecca

Randalls, Samuel

Thorpe, Charles

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: beyond crisis in the knowledge economy Part I From the ‘economics of science’ to the ‘political economy of research and innovation’1. The political economy of science: prospects and retrospects 2. The “marketplace of ideas” and the centrality of science to neoliberalism 3. The political economy of the Manhattan project 4. The knowledge economy, the crash and the depression 5. Science and engineering in digital capitalism 6. US Pharma’s business model: why it is broken, and how it can be fixed 7. Research & innovation (and) after neoliberalism: the case of Chinese smart e-mobility Part II Institutions of science and science funding 8. Controlled flows of pharmaceutical knowledge 9. Open access panacea: scarcity, abundance, and enclosure in the new economy of academic knowledge production 10. The political economy of higher education and student debt 11. Changes in Chinese higher education in the era of globalization 12. Financing technoscience: finance, assetization and rentiership 13. The ethical government of science and innovation 14. The politic…/part contents

Über Autor(innen)

David Tyfield is a Reader in Environmental Innovation and Sociology at the Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, UK, and Research Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry (GIGCAS).

Rebecca Lave is an Associate Professor in Geography at Indiana University, USA.

Samuel Randalls is a Lecturer in Geography at University College London, UK.

Charles Thorpe is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and a member of the Science Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego, USA.