By late in the twentieth century, scientists had succeeded in manipulating organisms at the
genetic level, mainly by gene transfer. The major impact of this technology has been seen in …

How does science create knowledge? Epistemic cultures, shaped by affinity, necessity, and
historical coincidence, determine how we know what we know. In this book, Karin Knorr …

As colleges and universities become more entrepreneurial in a post-industrial economy,
they focus on knowledge less as a public good than as a commodity to be capitalized on in …

Los economistas siempre se han sentido incómodos con lo que la maquinaria hace por
nosotros y para nosotros. Por una parte, las máquinas son la encarnación auténtica de la …

Keep the weather out? Make money for architects and contractors? Walls to hide behind?
Display wealth or good taste? Sites for produc-tive labor and entertaining leisure? Establish …

This eye-opening book describes how modern technologies--such as computers,
automobiles, machine tools, hybrid crops, nuclear reactors, and others--contribute to vexing …

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Increasing the “truth per dollar” of money spent on science is one legitimate long-run goal of
the economics of science. But before this goal can be achieved, we need to increase our …

In this second edition of The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental Ethics, Paul B.
Thompson reviews four worldviews that shape competing visions for agriculture …