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Prometheus Bound

Prometheus Bound

Ziman, J. M.
Ziman, John M.

Hardcover

Technology & EngineeringGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Science

ISBN10: 0521434300
ISBN13: 9780521434300
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 25 1994
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.32
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.21 Depth: 9.27
Language: English
After expanding steadily for centuries, science is reaching the limits to its growth. We can no longer afford the ever-increasing cost of exploring ever wider research opportunites. In the competition for resources, science is becoming much more tightly organized. A radical, pervasive and permanent structural change is taking place. It already affects the whole research system, from everyday laboratory life to national budgets. The scientific enterprise cannot avoid fundamental change, but excessive managerial insistence on accountability, evaluation priority setting and so on, can be very inhospitable to expertise, innovation, criticism and creativity. Can the research system be reshaped without losing many features that have made science so productive? This analysis of a deep-rooted historical process does not assume any technical knowledge of the natural sciences, their history, philosophy, sociology or politics. It is addressed to everybody who is concerned about the future of science and its place in society.

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