Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Science

David Tyfield is a Reader in Environmental Innovation and Sociology at the Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, UK, and Research Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry (GIGCAS).Rebecca Lave is an Associate Professor in Geography at Indiana University, USA.Samuel Randalls is a Lecturer in Geography at University College London, UK.Charles Thorpe is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and a member of the Science Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego, USA.

'Political economy goes all the way down. It saturates every nook and cranny of the production of scientific knowledge, technology, and the endless supply of hi-tech devices, gizmos, and applications. There is nothing pure and simple about any of them as this Handbook incisively demonstrates. They are all sullied. There are always political economic stories to tell, which this book does with historical precision, theoretical verve and persuasive eloquence.' — Trevor Barnes, Professor of Geography, the University of British Columbia, Canada

• Introduction: beyond crisis in the knowledge economy Part I From the ‘economics of science’ to the ‘political economy of research and innovation’1. The political economy of science: prospects and retrospects 2. The “marketplace of ideas” and the centrality of science to neoliberalism 3. The political economy of the Manhattan project 4. The knowledge economy, the crash and the depression 5. Science and engineering in digital capitalism 6. US Pharma’s business model: why it is broken, and how it can be fixed 7. Research & innovation (and) after neoliberalism: the case of Chinese smart e-mobility Part II Institutions of science and science funding 8. Controlled flows of pharmaceutical knowledge 9. Open access panacea: scarcity, abundance, and enclosure in the new economy of academic knowledge production 10. The political economy of higher education and student debt 11. Changes in Chinese higher education in the era of globalization 12. Financing technoscience: finance, assetization and rentiership 13. The ethical government of science and innovation 14. The politic…/part contents