![Prometheus Bound: Science in a dynamic steady state](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/f/300/434/9780521434300.OL.0.m.jpg)
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Prometheus Bound: Science in a dynamic steady state Hardcover - 1994
by Ziman, John
- Used
- Hardcover
Description
Used: See description
NZ$26.60
NZ$9.97
Shipping to USA
Standard delivery: 7 to 14 days
More Shipping Options
Standard delivery: 7 to 14 days
Ships from Windows Booksellers (Oregon, United States)
Details
- Title Prometheus Bound: Science in a dynamic steady state
- Author Ziman, John
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 289
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
- Date 1994
- Bookseller's Inventory # 744202
- ISBN 9780521434300 / 0521434300
- Weight 1.32 lbs (0.60 kg)
- Dimensions 9.27 x 6.21 x 0.9 in (23.55 x 15.77 x 2.29 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Science - Social aspects, Science and state
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93005922
- Dewey Decimal Code 338.926
About Windows Booksellers Oregon, United States
Biblio member since 2018
We've been in business since 1987 and have storefronts in Eugene and Portland, Oregon. Currently we are selling via mail order and for local customers, offering curbside pick up. Our speciality is academic studies in western philosophy, classics, Christian theology, church history, Judaica, biblical studies, archaeology and ancient near east.
From the rear cover
After expanding 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 organized. A radical, pervasive and permanent structural change is taking place. This already affects the whole research system, from everyday laboratory life to the national budget. 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, or their history, philosophy, sociology, or politics. It is addressed to everybody who is concerned about the future of science and its place in society.