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economics of scientific knowledge  

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  • This entry introduces a blossoming research field in the philosophy of science in which certain tools used by economists are applied to the analysis of the production and evaluation of scientific knowledge. On this view, scientists are seen as economic agents. [Source: Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences; Economics of Scientific Knowledge]

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