value from them. We argue that the growing reliance on science in inventions enhances MFT. In addition to higher quality … inventions, reliance on science may enhance gains from trade and reduce the transfer cost of knowledge and other transaction … costs. Using large scale data, we show that patents citing science are more likely to be traded, especially for novel …

Scientists, social scientists and politicians frequently credit basic science with stimulating technological innovation … university and science-based patents. The analyses suggest that heightened communication explains a substantial amount of the …

and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as …, unimpeded science, a passive Church and high levels of taxes and transfers. Second, a "Theocratic" regime with knowledge …

philosophy of science and the sociological, economic and political outlook at science that emphasizes the private interests … motivating scientists and the subsequent contingent nature of the enterprise. The aim is to show that although science is a … scientific progress - contrary to the claims of certain sociologists of science and other relativists who standardly stress its …

and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as …, unimpeded science, a passive Church and high levels of taxes and transfers. Second, a "Theocratic" regime with knowledge …

skills or knowledge, rather than by accumulation of capital. It is argued that science is a systematic inquiry that is … became possible only after the process of skill transmission became institutionalized as science. Science as a social … in the context of Adam Smith’s theory of economics progress; that specialization and the division of labor is limited by …