Greedy Science: Creating Knowledge, Making Money, and Being Famous in the 1980s (Paperback)

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Greed, Science, and Greedy Science, by Michael D. Gordin and W. Patrick McCray
Part I: To the Market
1. Taking the Marks to the Market: The Oil Industry and the Entrepreneurial Turn, by Cyrus C. M. Mody
2. Taller Than a T-Rex: Celebrity and Leftist Politics in the Public Career of Stephen Jay Gould, by Myrna Perez
3. VisiCalc, Personal Computing, and the Speculative Entrepreneur of 1980s America, by Laine Nooney
Part II: Privatization
4. Thatcherism, Science, and Greed, by Jon Agar
5. Kids, Commerce, and Communists: Access to Space in the 1980s, by Margaret A. Weitekamp
6. Neoliberal Mutations, by Angela N. H. Creager
7. "Drugs Into Bodies": AIDS Activism and the Constitutional Limits of Biocapital, by Cathy Gere
Part III: Regions
8. Greedy Geography: The Localization of Biotechnology in Cambridge, by Robin Wolfe Scheffler
9. Science as Speculation: State Capitalism, Real Estate, and Singapore's Jurong Town Corporation, by Hallam Stevens
10. Science, Texas Style: How the Lone Star State Embraced Science in a Big Way, by Peter Westwick
Part IV: Speculations and Spectacles
11. "The Required Allocations Grew Considerably": Soviet Science, Military Imperatives, the Ambivalent Response to Reagan's Star Wars, by Asif Siddiqi
12. Extinction, Insurance, or a New Weapons Industry: Asteroid Impacts and the Triumph of the Apocalyptic Lobbyist, by Matthew Stanley
13. Service with a Smile, Or, How Profit Made Japanese Robots Personal and Personable, by Yulia Frumer
Afterword: From Groovy Science to Greedy Science, by David Farber
List of Contributors
Index