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	<title>Knowledge Rules &#187; Knowledge economy</title>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Viridiana Jones Chronicles (9): The Commercialization of Science is the Apotheosis of the Neoliberal Program</title>
		<link>http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/05/06/the-viridiana-jones-chronicles-9-the-commercialization-of-science-is-the-apotheosis-of-the-neoliberal-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 13:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Mirowski</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The massive fortification of intellectual property is one of the stunning success stories of the neoliberal project. It has been the primary method deployed to transmute the marketplace of ideas from a dream scenario into quotidian reality. The dogma that no one would think, or at least convey their thoughts to others, unless they somehow received market recompense for their labors, is a tremendous slander on the history of science and culture, but nevertheless has carried the day to become folk wisdom in the neoteric order. Students have to be taught not to ‘steal’ digital music files, even though within their lifetimes making copies of music had been treated as fair use under copyright law.  Likewise, students have to be taught not to ‘steal’ research that they may have carried out themselves, unless they have secured permissions from everyone from their thesis advisor to their university technology transfer office. Since the marketplace is the greatest information processor known to humankind, there is no way that a few extra property rights imposed here and there might actually throttle the further production of knowledge and culture.]]></description>
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		<title>The Viridiana Jones Chronicles (6): The Restructuring of the Corporate Form and the Outsourcing of Commercial R&#038;D</title>
		<link>http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/03/14/the-viridiana-jones-chronicles-6-the-restructuring-of-the-corporate-form-and-the-outsourcing-of-commercial-rd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Mirowski</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The globalization of corporate R&#038;D is one of the characteristic hallmarks of the new regime of knowledge production. Of course, multinational companies headquartered in smaller countries like the Netherlands and Switzerland have long internationalized their R&#038;D activities essentially from their inception; but the more striking trend is the sharp rise in international outsourcing of research across the board since the 1980s.]]></description>
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		<title>The Global U Phenomenon</title>
		<link>http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/03/03/the-global-u-phenomenon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Ross</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As universities are increasingly exposed to the rough justice of the market, their institutional life is distinguished more by the rate of change than by the observance of custom and tradition. Few examples illustrate this better than the rush, in recent years, to establish overseas programs and branch campuses. Since 9/11, the pace of offshoring has surged and is being pursued across the entire spectrum of institutions that populate the higher education landscape, from the ballooning for-profit sectors and online diploma mills to land grant universities to the most elite, ivied colleges. No single organization has attained the operational status of a global university, after the model of the global corporation, but it may only be a matter of time before we see the current infants of that species take their first, unaided steps.]]></description>
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		<title>The Viridiana Jones Chronicles (4): The Spread of Computer Technology and the Rise of the Internet</title>
		<link>http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/02/29/the-viridiana-jones-chronicles-4-the-spread-of-computer-technology-and-the-rise-of-the-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Mirowski</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many fine histories of the postwar development of the computer and the construction of the Internet, such that it might appear almost superfluous to mention them as a prime determinant in the transformation of our understanding of the production and distribution of information. Their joint impact upon global communications and the control and storage of information conventionally makes reference to two principles said to be inscribed in the very technological trajectory of their development: Moore’s Law, which guaranteed that the per-unit cost of a calculation and/or memory unit was destined to fall exponentially over the horizon of its relevance; and the so-called “end-to-end” principle in the packet-switching architecture of the Internet, where ‘all’ the coordination and control functions were supposedly relegated to the edges of the network, and the internal nodes of the Internet were deemed neutral with regard to simple routing functions.]]></description>
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		<title>The Viridiana Jones Chronicles (3): The Rise of a Putative &#8220;Knowledge Economy&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Mirowski</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States has been losing net manufacturing employment to production facilities overseas since 1989. Not only were entire geographical locales devastated. Some pundits proceeded to try and paste a positive ☺face on the phenomenon, by suggesting that advanced economies were becoming increasingly ‘weightless’, or else would graduate to a third stage of capitalism consisting almost exclusively of the service sector, or indeed disengage from gross physical production processes altogether. Of course, most people recognized that much talk bordered on delusional, but nevertheless managed to attain a patina of sensibility by engaging in locutions such as “The Information Society” or “The New Knowledge Economy”.]]></description>
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