Is science a public good? Does science mean progress? Or is science something more exploitative - driven by profit, promoted by businesses and institutions looking for economic and political power? This study shows how an understanding of sexual and natural selection can transform our view of progre[...]
The purpose of this book is to assess the myth that government-funded science works economically. Terence Kealey argues that the free market approach rather than that of state funding has proved by far the most successful in stimulating science and innovation.
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