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Accounting and science : natural inquiry and commercial reason /
"In recent years policy makers and scientists have become increasingly interested in the economics of science, and in particular in the relationship between accounting and science. This book, originally published as a special issue of the journal Science in Context, explores the intersections b...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1996.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in management ;
26. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword: The flat-earthers of social theory / Bruno Latour
- 1. Introduction: from the science of accounts to the financial accountability of science / Michael Power
- 2. Making things quantitative / Theodore M. Porter
- 3. Natural and artificial budgets: accounting for Goethe's economy of nature / Myles W. Jackson
- 4. A calculating profession: Victorian actuaries among the statisticians / Timothy L. Alborn
- 5. The factory as laboratory / Peter Miller and Ted O'Leary
- 6. Connecting science to the economic: accounting calculation and the visibility of research and development / Keith Robson
- 7. Governing science: patents and public sector research / Brad Sherman
- 8. On customers and costs: a story from public sector science / John Law and Madeleine Akrich
- 9. A visible hand in the marketplace of ideas: precision measurement as arbitrage / Philip Mirowksi
- 10. Toward a philosophy of science accounting: a critical rendering of instrumental rationality / Steve Fuller.