Patronage, Reputation and Common Agency Contracting in the Scientific Revolution: From Keeping 'Nature's Secrets' to the Institutionalization of 'Open Science'

Abstract

Society Program of the Mellon Foundation, and more recently from the Renaissance Trust (UK). Its initial conceptualization was shaped more than a decade ago by my concurrent collaborative research with Partha Dasgupta on the economics of science. Weston Headley provided extraordinarily able research assistance in the project’s early phase. My explorations in this vein were greatly encouraged and assisted by the opportunity to undertake extensive reading in the history and philosophy of science during 1990-91, when I held a Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship. Mario Biagioli, Noel Swerdlow, and the late Richard Westfall generously discussed their own archival researches relating to this subject; they also instructed me by supplying innumerable bibliographic references, only some small fraction of which have found their way into the present version. The original draft from which the present work has developed was presented to the Conference on the “Economics of Conventions," organized by André Orléans and held under the auspices of the Centre de Recherche

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