@article{1478984,
      recid = {1478984},
      author = {Mirowski, Philip, },
      title = {Science-Mart : Privatizing American Science /},
      pages = {1 online resource (462 p.) :},
      abstract = {This trenchant study analyzes the rise and decline in the  quality and format of science in America since World War  II.During the Cold War, the U.S. government amply funded  basic research in science and medicine. Starting in the  1980s, however, this support began to decline and  for-profit corporations became the largest funders of  research. Philip Mirowski argues that a powerful neoliberal  ideology promoted a radically different view of knowledge  and discovery: the fruits of scientific investigation are  not a public good that should be freely available to all,  but are commodities that could be monetized.Consequently,  patent and intellectual property laws were greatly  strengthened, universities demanded patents on the  discoveries of their faculty, information sharing among  researchers was impeded, and the line between universities  and corporations began to blur. At the same time,  corporations shed their in-house research laboratories,  contracting with independent firms both in the States and  abroad to supply new products. Among such firms were AT&T  and IBM, whose outstanding research laboratories during  much of the twentieth century produced Nobel Prize-winning  work in chemistry and physics, ranging from the transistor  to superconductivity.Science-Mart offers a provocative,  learned, and timely critique, of interest to anyone  concerned that American science-once the envy of the  world-must be more than just another way to make money.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478984},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674061132},
}