Greedy Science

Creating Knowledge, Making Money, and Being Famous in the 1980s

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvMichael D. Gordin,Michael D Gordin,Michael D. Gordin,W. Patrick McCray,Santa Barbara) McCray, W. Patrick (University of California,W Patrick McCray

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On the transformative role of greed in global science and technology during the 1980s.In the 1980s, a transformative era emerged where profit-driven motives and an entrepreneurial spirit dominated scientific research and technological innovation. This collection of essays, edited by Michael D. Gordin and W. Patrick McCray, examines how greed reshaped the global scientific community through the relentless pursuit of money, fame, and celebrity. Profiting off science and technology was not a new phenomenon, nor were the soaring ambitions of some of its most fervent advocates. However, the global currents of knowledge production in the 1980s saw major cultural and scientific shifts: the increasing frequency of university patenting, the rise of academic entrepreneurship, and collaborations between industries and academia, for example. Greedy Science seeks to survey and understand the full range of these changes. Through insightful essays, contributors examine case studies ranging from the biotech boom—driven by early oil-firm investments—to the speculative market strategies in personal computing and alternative energy. This period saw the rise of the celebrity status of scientists and raised questions about the moral complexities of scientific greed. The authors argue that greed was an ever-present and expansive trait of science during this time, encompassing a host of behaviors such as covetousness, acquisitiveness, rapaciousness, and conspicuous consumption. Greedy Science provides a nuanced analysis of how market dynamics and the quest for personal gain profoundly influenced scientific advancements and public perception during a pivotal decade in science and technology.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-02-18
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt544 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor384
FörlagJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN9781421450865

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AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Greed, Science, and Greedy Science, by Michael D. Gordin and W. Patrick McCrayPart I: To the Market1. Taking the Marks to the Market: The Oil Industry and the Entrepreneurial Turn, by Cyrus C. M. Mody2. Taller Than a T-Rex: Celebrity and Leftist Politics in the Public Career of Stephen Jay Gould, by Myrna Perez3. VisiCalc, Personal Computing, and the Speculative Entrepreneur of 1980s America, by Laine NooneyPart II: Privatization4. Thatcherism, Science, and Greed, by Jon Agar5. Kids, Commerce, and Communists: Access to Space in the 1980s, by Margaret A. Weitekamp6. Neoliberal Mutations, by Angela N. H. Creager7. "Drugs Into Bodies": AIDS Activism and the Constitutional Limits of Biocapital, by Cathy GerePart III: Regions8. Greedy Geography: The Localization of Biotechnology in Cambridge, by Robin Wolfe Scheffler9. Science as Speculation: State Capitalism, Real Estate, and Singapore's Jurong Town Corporation, by Hallam Stevens10. Science, Texas Style: How the Lone Star State Embraced Science in a Big Way, by Peter WestwickPart IV: Speculations and Spectacles11. "The Required Allocations Grew Considerably": Soviet Science, Military Imperatives, the Ambivalent Response to Reagan's Star Wars, by Asif Siddiqi12. Extinction, Insurance, or a New Weapons Industry: Asteroid Impacts and the Triumph of the Apocalyptic Lobbyist, by Matthew Stanley13. Service with a Smile, Or, How Profit Made Japanese Robots Personal and Personable, by Yulia FrumerAfterword: From Groovy Science to Greedy Science, by David FarberList of ContributorsIndex

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