Greedy science creating knowledge, making money, and being famous in the 1980s / edited by Michael D. Gordin and W. Patrick McCray.
| Other author | Gordin, Michael D. |
| Other author | McCray, W. Patrick, 1967 |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025. |
| Description | 370 pages illustrations 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | creating knowledge, making money, and being famous in the 1980s |
| Physical medium | illustrations |
| Contents | Introduction: Greed, Science, and Greedy Science / Michael D. Gordin and W. Patrick McCray -- Part I: To the Market -- Taking the Marks to the Market: The Oil Industry and the Entrepreneurial Turn -- Cyrus C. M. Mody -- Taller Than a T-Rex: Celebrity and Leftist Politics in the Public Career of Stephen Jay Gould / Myrna Perez -- VisiCalc, Personal Computing, and the Speculative Entrepreneur of 1980s America / Laine Nooney -- Part II: Privatization -- Thatcherism, Science, and Greed / Jon Agar -- Kids, Commerce, and Communists: Access to Space in the 1980s / Margaret A. Weitekamp -- Neoliberal Mutations / Angela N. H. Creager -- "Drugs Into Bodies": AIDS Activism and the Constitutional Limits of Biocapital / Cathy Gere -- Part III: Regions -- Greedy Geography: The Localization of Biotechnology in Cambridge / Robin Wolfe Scheffler -- Science as Speculation: State Capitalism, Real Estate, and Singapore's Jurong Town Corporation / Hallam Stevens -- Science, Texas Style: How the Lone Star State Embraced Science in a Big Way / Peter Westwick -- Part IV: Speculations and Spectacles -- "The Required Allocations Grew Considerably": Soviet Science, Military Imperatives, the Ambivalent Response to Reagan's Star Wars / Asif Siddiqi -- Extinction, Insurance, or a New Weapons Industry: Asteroid Impacts and the Triumph of the Apocalyptic Lobbyist / Matthew Stanley -- Service with a Smile, Or, How Profit Made Japanese Robots Personal and Personable / Yulia Frumer -- Afterword--From Groovy Science to Greedy Science / David Farber. |
| Abstract | "The authors in this edited collection of essays explore this particular attribute-greed-by looking how it informed, intersected, and interlaced with science and technology (and scientists and technologists) during the 1980s. During this decade, greed, although undeniably present in earlier eras, became an extensive, expansive, and at times explicit characteristic of science both in the United States and around the world.3 The global scientific community was reshaped in a multitude of ways, large and small, by money, fame, and the pursuit of celebrity"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024021284 |
| ISBN | 9781421450858 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781421450865 paperback |
| ISBN | epub |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |