Science-mart : privatizing American science / Philip Mirowski.

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.

454 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Viridiana Jones and the Temple of Mammon : or, adventures in neoliberal science studies -- [pt.] I. Why we should not depend upon the existing content of an "Economics of Science." The "Economics of Science" as repeat offender -- [pt.] II. A modern economic history of science organization. Regimes of American science organization ; Lovin' intellectual property and livin' with the MTA : retracting research tools ; Pharma's market : new horizons in outsourcing in the modern globalized regime -- [pt.] III. Where we are headed. Has science been "harmed" by the modern commercial regime? ; The new production of ignorance : the dirty secret of the new knowledge economy.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-447) and index.