The question of patents in biotechnology may be viewed as a matter of science and technology policy, such that globalization and the knowledge society are at a crossroads with biopolitics. In the United States this issue is viewed as a matter of policies pertaining to public knowledge policy,...

In the 1870s and 1880s, the scientist, logician, and pragmatist philosopher Charles S. Peirce possessed an advanced knowledge of mathematical economics, having mastered and criticized Cournot as early as 1871. In 1884 he engaged in a multi-round debate with the editors of The Nation over the...