[Athena] "The Emergence of Institutional Science, 1650-1850", séminaire de George Grantham le 4 mai

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Chers collègues,

George Grantham (Université de McGill) présentera le 4 mai un article sur
l'émergence de la science institutionnelle dans le cadre du "Séminaire
Parisien d'Histoire Économique".

Cet article est particulièrement intéressant en ces temps de réflexion sur
l'évaluation de la recherche. Vous êtes tous cordialement invités.

Le séminaire a lieu à l'OFCE, 69 Quai d'Orsay 75007, salle de réunion du
rez-de-chaussée à 17h30.

Voici son résumé :

Science and Its Transaction Costs: The Emergence of Insitutionalized Science,
1650-1850.

Cognitive obstacles to perception of novelty on the scientific frontier 
created
obstacles to evaluating scientific work and recruiting scientific workers had
to be overcome for the scientific enterprise to expand to the point where it
could significantly affect factor productivity.  The principal problems arise
from the idiosyncracy of observations on the research frontier and the
exceptional specificity of the human capital employed in identifying and
validating scientific novelty.  Resolution of these problems was by no means
inevitable or predictable, as the scientific institutions which had emerged as
the principal institutional support of ‘Open Science’ in the seventeenth
and eighteenth century could not be efficiently scaled up to accommodate the
requirements of a greatly expanded scientific enterprise.  This paper recounts
how in the second quarter of the nineteenth century the emergence of
decentralized university-based research networks in Germany resolved the
problem of scale, laying the foundations for the discoveries that powered the
‘Second Industrial Revolution’ of the late nineteenth and early twentieth
century.


Vous pouvez me contacter pour obtenir une version électronique de l'article.

Un article de Paul David (qui sera présent) sur un sujet proche ("The
Historical Origins of `Open Science': An Essay on Patronage, Reputation and
Common Agency Contracting in the Scientific Revolution,")  est disponible ici 
:
http://www.bepress.com/cas/vol3/iss2/art5 .

Cordialement,

Guillaume Daudin