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...

Introduction: Economics and "the Economy" -- How Economics forgot Capitalism -- Economics Caught in a Physics Masquerade -- Rethinking Science and Social Science with Critical Realism -- Rethinking Marx and the Economic Science of Capital -- The Uno-Sekine Reconstruction of Capital:...