Introduction

The Entangled Histories of Science and Capitalism

Bibliographic Data

ID3924510
AuthorsLukas Rieppel (0000-0003-3141-7995), Eugenia Lean (0009-0008-3178-7500), William Deringer (Feed Control (Norway), corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume33
Issue1
Pages1-24
Publication date2018-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueOsiris (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0369-7827 • E-ISSN: 1933-8287
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/699170
OpenAlexW2898489524
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited74

This volume revisits the mutually constitutive relationship between science and capitalism from the seventeenth century to the present day. Adopting a global approach, we reject the notion that either science or capitalism can be understood as stages of modernity that emerged in the West and subsequently engendered a “Great Divergence” with the rest of the world. Instead, both science and capitalism were historical institutions that arose in an imperial context of global exchange and whose entanglement has been continuously remade. Rather than seek to explain either the development of modern science as a product of economic forces or the divergence of capitalist economies as a result of technical innovation, we want to emphasize the knowledge work that has been a central feature of both modern science and capitalism across the globe

Biology · Capitalism · China · Economics · Epistemology · Globe · Great Divergence · Modernity · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Science studies · Social science · Sociology · Economic Theory and Institutions · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · History of Science and Natural History · Law · Philosophy

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