Open AccessThe price of knowledge
Author(s) -
Nico Stehr,
Marian Adolf
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
tempo social
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.449
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1809-4554
pISSN - 0103-2070
DOI - 10.11606/0103-2070.ts.2018.137735
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , sociology of scientific knowledge , value (mathematics) , positive economics , sociology , politics , citation , social science , epistemology , political science , economics , law , computer science , philosophy , machine learning , artificial intelligence
This article addresses the apparently rather old question as the citation from the 1851 issue of the Scientific American indicates – of how to assess and measure the value or price of knowledge. We will probe the issue from a variety of social scientific and practical perspectives. Against the background of a sociological concept of knowledge economic, political, social and juridical perspectives are discussed that may lead us to a price of knowledge.