General premise -- Theoretical frame -- Innovation, uncertainty, entrepreneurship : modelling the dynamic process of the economy -- Mainstream economics and heterodox economics : a misleading controversy : "necessary" system versus "natural" system -- An explanation of economic change and...

Science is difficult and costly to do well. This study systematically creates an economics of science. Many aspects of science are explored from an economic point of view. The scientist is treated as an economically rational individual. This book begins with economic models of misconduct in...