The economics of scientific collaboration – Michael Nielsen

In this and several future posts I’m going to discuss what economics can tell us about scientific collaboration.

What economics can tell us about scientific collaboration In this and several future posts I’m going to discuss what economics can tell us about scientific collaboration. This may sound like a strange topic. Why should economics tell us anything interesting about scientific collaboration? Most discussions of economics are couched in terms of money, interest rates, prices, and so on. While these are relevant to science in a shallow, who’s-paying-for-this-lab-space kind of way, it’s not obvious we can learn anything deep about scientific collaboration by thinking in economic te

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