- PII
- S1811-833X0000617-8-
- DOI
- 10.7868/SX0000617-8-1
- Publication type
- Article
- Status
- Published
- Authors
- Abstract
- I argue that if science is to be a public good, it must be made one. Neither science nor any other form of knowledge is naturally a public good. And given the history of science policy in the twentieth century, it would be reasonable to conclude that science is in fact what economists call a ‘club good’. I discuss this matter in detail in two contexts: (1) current UK efforts to create a version of the US DARPA that would focus on projects of larger, long-term societal interests - i.e. beyond the interests of the academic specialities represented in, say, the US NSF; (2) what I call the‘organized hypocrisy’ involved in presenting science as a public good through the so-called ‘peer review’ process.
- Keywords
- science, public good, NSF, DARPA, organized hypocrisy, peer review
- Date of publication
- 01.12.2020
- Year of publication
- 2020
- Number of purchasers
- 11
- Views
- 367
RAS History & PhilologyАзия и Африка сегодня Asia and Africa Today
- ISSN (Print) 0321-5075
- ISSN (Online) 2782-2389
If science is a public good, why do scientists own it?
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