Accounting and science : natural inquiry and commercial reason / edited by Michael Power.
Contributor(s): Power, Michael
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Material type: 
BookSeries: Cambridge studies in management ; 26.Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996Description: xvii, 288 p. ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0521553253 ; 0521556996 .Uniform titles: Science in context. Subject(s): Accounting | Management science | Commercial statisticsDDC classification: 657 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 657 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00016361 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 , provides a truly interdisciplinary approach to this subject. The contributors explore, in a number of different ways, the constitutive role that practices of economic calculation play in the conduct of science and the forms of economic life within which science is embedded. Challenging conventional views, they suggest that if scientific and accounting practices are to be properly understood, they must be studied in relation to a complex background of specialist communities, funding institutions and demands for public accountability. This book will be invaluable for scholars and policy makers working in the field.
"Originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1994 as a special issue of the journal Science in context"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From the science of accounts to the financial accountability of science / Michael Power -- Making things quantitative / Theodore M. Porter -- Natural and artificial budgets: accounting for Goethe's economy of nature / Myles W. Jackson -- A calculating profession: Victorian actuaries among the statisticians / Timothy L. Alborn -- The factory as laboratory / Peter Miller and Ted O'Leary -- Connecting science to the economic: accounting calculation and the visibility of research and development / Keith Robson -- Governing science: patents and public sector research / Brad Sherman -- On customers and costs: a story from public sector science / John Law and Madeline Akrich -- A visible hand in the marketplace of ideas: precision measurement as arbitrage / Philip Mirowksi -- Toward a philosophy of science accounting: a critical rendering of instrumental rationality / Steve Fuller.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Foreword: The flat-earthers of social theory
- 1 From the science of accounts to the financial accountability of science
- 2 Making things quantitative Theodore
- 3 Natural and artificial budgets: accounting for Goethe's economy of nature
- 4 A calculating profession: Victorian actuaries among the statisticians
- 5 The factory as laboratory
- 6 Connecting science to the economic: accounting calculation and the visibility of research and development
- 7 Governing science: patents and public sector science
- 8 On customers and costs: a story from public sector science
- 9 A visible hand in the marketplace of ideas: precision measurement as arbitrage
- 10 Towards a philosophy of science accounting: a critical rendering of instrumental rationality
- Index