Zamora Bonilla, Jesús (2019) The market for scientific lemons, and the marketization of science. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 34 (1). pp. 133-145. ISSN 2171-679X
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Abstract
Scientific research is based on the division of cognitive labour: every scientist has to trust that other colleagues have checked whether the items that are taken as knowledge, and she cannot check by herself, are reliable enough. I apply ideas from the field known as ‘information economics’ (the study of economic interactions where some agents are better informed than others) to analyse the scientists’ incentives to produce items of knowledge of an ‘adequate’ quality, under the assumption that a big part of what one observes in her empirical research is not available for the readers of the paper. I also discuss some criticisms to this ‘marketization’ of science studies.
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| Additional Information: | ISSN: 0495-4548 (print) | ||||||
| Keywords: | Division of cognitive labour; trust; rational choice; economics of information; information asymmetry; scientific norms; scientific institutions; commodification | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Economics General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science |
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| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email theoria@ehu.es | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 01 May 2019 13:08 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 01 May 2019 13:08 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 15955 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science | ||||||
| Publisher: | Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea / Universidad del País Vasco | ||||||
| Official URL: | http://www.ehu.eus/ojs/index.php/THEORIA/article/v... | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1387/theoria.19508 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Economics General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science |
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| Date: | January 2019 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 133-145 | ||||||
| Volume: | 34 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2171-679X | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/15955 |
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