Science and economy interrelation

The economy of science.

We are in the midst of an era of plummeting pay lines at the NIH. History shows that when the federal deficit is high, NIH pay lines tend to fall, and the impact on biomedical research can be disastrous. Equally bad is the disincentive for the future generations of biomedical researchers who observe their mentors struggling to get adequate funding. How many bright young people will be turned aw...

Trust and Belief, Interrelation

We introduce the modal system BT which is a multi-modal language designed to talk about trust and belief of two agents. The belief operators are based on modal system KS. This gives the main difference with already known system BA introduced by Churn-Jung Liau [2] and also carries its own intuitive meaning. As a main result we prove that BT is sound and complete with respect to the given semant...

The New Food Economy: Consumers, Farms, Pharms, and Science

The new food economy is bigger, broader, faster, and more demanding. It is a kaleidoscope of foods, firms, consumers, countries, contracts, and agreements that provide us with a dizzying vision of moving targets. We have witnessed the food and agricultural industry move from a set of independent producers and marketing firms to a set of integrated and highly managed supply chains. We have witne...

The credit economy and the economic rationality of science

Philosophical discussions of the rationality of science have focused almost entirely on belief. The traditional model supposes that there is a set of theories a scientist considers live alternatives and the scientist has access to some evidence which (potentially, at least) relates to some of those theories. Philosophers then ask, what are rational constraints on how a scientist changes her min...

Science, Enterprise and Profit: Ideology in the Knowledge-Driven Economy