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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 August 2012
      25 March 1994
      ISBN:
      9780511585067
      9780521434300
      9780521019125
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511585067
      Dimensions:
      (234 x 158 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.62kg, 300 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.612kg, 300 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Philosophy of Science, Popular Science, Philosophy, General Science
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    After expanding steadily for centuries, science is reaching its limits to growth. We can no longer afford the ever increasing cost of exploring ever wider research opportunities. In the competition for resources, science is becoming much more tightly organised. 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', etc. 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 trenchant 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.

    Reviews

    ‘Ziman succeeds very well in … describing the structures of academic science and the motivations of scientists driven by the intense competition of research at the frontiers. He gives an excellent analysis of the many dangers that threaten the future success of the enterprise … Ziman’s analysis will strike echoes everywhere. This is a book for all those who wish to understand the concerns of those working at the frontiers of science to set Prometheus free.’

    Source: Nature

    ‘Prometheus Bound is a masterly contribution to our thinking on these issues.’

    Source: Book Review

    ‘ … a deep analysis of the origins and extent of the changes that are affecting every facet of scientific enterprise and the lives of individual scientists and corporations.’

    Source: New Scientist

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