Tyfield / Lave / Randalls The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Science

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-41202-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 486 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge International Handbooks

The political economy of research and innovation (R&I) is one of the central issues of the early 21st 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 & 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 inter-relations 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tyfield, David

Lave, Rebecca

Randalls, Samuel

Thorpe, Charles

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Introduction

Pt I: From the ‘Economics of Science’ to the ‘Political Economy of Research and Innovation’

Chapter 1 The ‘economics of science’ beyond science, the ‘linear model’ and economic growth

David Edgerton

Chapter 2 The centrality of the "Marketplace of Ideas" and science to neoliberalism

Eddie Nik-Khah

Chapter 3 Political economy of the Manhattan project

Charles Thorpe

Chapter 4 The knowledge economy, the crash and the depression

Ugo Pagano & Maria Alessandra Rossi

Chapter 5 Re-absorbing science and engineering into digital capitalism

Daniel Schiller & ShinJoung Yeo

Chapter 6 The changing influence of the stock market on science and innovation

William Lazonick

Chapter 7 Science (and) after neoliberalism

David Tyfield

Pt II: Institutions of Science and Science Funding

Chapter 8 Randomized, controlled trials and the political economy of pharmaceutical knowledge Sergio Sismondo

Chapter 9 Open Access

Chris Muellerlisle

Chapter 10 The political economy of higher education and student debt

Daniel Rich & Eric Best

Chapter 11 The political economy of Chinese Higher Education in the era of globalization

Hongguan Xu and Tian Ye

Chapter 12 Financing technoscience: Finance, assetization and rentiership

Kean Birch

Chapter 13 The ethical government of science and innovation

Luigi Pellizzoni

Chapter 14 The political economy of military science

Chris Langley & Stuart Parkinson

Pt III: Fields of Science

Chapter 15 Genetically engineered food for a hungry world: A changing political economy

Rebecca Harrison, Abby Kinchy, & Laura Rabinow

Chapter 16 Biodiversity offsetting

Rebecca Lave & Morgan Robertson

Chapter 17 New biotech: Exchange and labor in distributed biotechnology

Alessandro Delfanti

Chapter 18 Translational medicine: Science, risk and an emergent political economy of biomedical innovation

Mark Robinson

Chapter 19 Are climate models global public goods?

Leigh Johnson & Costanza Rampini

Chapter 20 Renewable energy research and development: A political economy perspective

David J Hess & Rachel McKane

Chapter 21 Synthetic Biology: A political economy of participation, regulation, and modification of molecular futures

Jairus Rossi

Pt IV: Governing Science and Governing Through Science

Chapter 22 Carbon markets and the political economy of climate science

Larry Lohmann

Chapter 23 Commercializing environmental data

Samuel Randalls

Chapter 24 Science and standards

Elizabeth Ransom, Jason Konefal, Maki Hatanaka & Allison Loconto

Chapter 25 Politicization of science, scientization of politics/ agnotology

Manuel Fernández Pinto

Chapter 26 Citizen science: Changing the political economy of knowledge and expertise?

Gwen Ottinger

Pt V: (Political Economic) Geographies of Science

Chapter 27 The transformation of Chinese science

Richard P. Suttmeier

Chapter 28 Postcolonial technoscience and technical assistance: insights from the political economy of locust control expertise

Claude Peloquin

Chapter 29 North-South cosmopolitized science

Pierre Delvenne & Pablo Kreimer

Chapter 30 Science as development assistance

Hebe Vessuri

Chapter 31 Traveling imaginaries of innovation: Political cultures, hegemony, and the "practice turn" in the global circulation of innovation models

Sebastian Pfotenhauer and Sheila Jasanoff

Chapter 32 What is science critique today? STS and the political economy of science

Phil Mirowski

Index

Über Autor(innen)

David Tyfield is a Reader in Environmental Innovation & 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.