How Economics Shapes Science

Paula Stephan

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$26.00 • £22.95 • €23.95

ISBN 9780674088160

Publication Date: 09/07/2015

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384 pages

13 line illustrations, 7 tables

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List of Figures and Tables
Preface
List of Abbreviations
1. What Does Economics Have to Do with Science?
2. Puzzles and Priority
3. Money
4. The Production of Research: People and Patterns of Collaboration
5. The Production of Research: Equipment and Materials
6. Funding for Research
7. The Market for Scientists and Engineers
8. The Foreign Born
9. The Relationship of Science to Economic Growth
10. Can We Do Better?
Appendix
Notes
References
Acknowledgments
Index

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