Economics of Science

A metascientific field that examines the economic dimensions of scientific activity—how money flows through research systems, how funding shapes research agendas, how economic incentives influence scientific behavior, and how scientific knowledge generates economic value. The economics of science analyzes funding mechanisms (grants, contracts, institutional support), labor markets (scientists as workers, training pipelines, career structures), intellectual property regimes (patents, licensing, commercialization), and the economic impact of research (innovation, growth, productivity). It also examines how economic forces create inequalities within science—between fields, between institutions, between countries—and how these inequalities shape what gets studied and who gets to study it. The economics of science reveals that science is not just a pursuit of truth but an economic activity, embedded in markets and driven by incentives, and that understanding science requires understanding its economic logic.

Example: "His economics of science analysis showed how the shift to project-based grant funding transformed scientific practice—not just what got studied, but how scientists thought about risk, collaboration, and their own careers. When funding becomes project-based, science becomes project-shaped."

by Dumu The Void March 16, 2026

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Economic Blackout Day

Progressive set-up to blame Trump for the stock market crash.

Hym "So, we're just going to pretend they didn't set up an economic blackout day that same day? They serious just did that just there, didn't they? They are actively trying to make it look like he has schizophrenia- I mean, make it look like he's to blame."

by Hym Iam March 4, 2025

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Econo-Enviro-Judo

Econo-Enviro-Judo is an economic strategy, for undoing the damages to our Earth’s environment, by creating profitable solutions or systems that appeal to human greed, instead of logical reasoning, to apply the Judo art of turning an attacker’s force against him, to counteract the efforts of mega-corporations, who destroy the world’s environment because of their greed. Because human greed caused most of Earth’s environmental destruction, perhaps only by exploiting it can we save the Earth.

Bob sent his ‘The Global 50/50 Lottery Cellphone App’, an Econo-Enviro-Judo idea, that could raise massive funds to purchase clean electricity generating systems everywhere, to stop global warming by replacing the coal burning electric power plants, which emit the excessive Carbon Dioxide into our Earth’s atmosphere which is causing global warming, all over the internet.

by Techrex March 6, 2025

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Economic Collapse

That has got to be brutal!

Hym "So not only do you have to sit there for 10 years and watch me be right about everything... But you ALSO have to live in a world where I am better then you... AND NOW... You're all going to lose everything! You cheered it on when it was me. You cheered it on. You could have stopped those kids from dying and DIDN'T... EXPLICITLY BECAUSE YOU WANTED ME TO SUFFER... And now the economic collapse is on it's way! Did you learn it yet? Did you learn 'WRONG' yet? I'm still here so I GUESS NOT! You'll figure it out eventually. I mean... What does it take? What has to happen for you to understand 'YOU WRONG. ME NOT WRONG?' It's crazy! Absolute insanity! I can figure out how to create AI but I can't figure out how to teach retards 'wrong' as a concept. I don't know if that irony or what but you clearly do not 'understand it now' guys."

by Hym Iam April 8, 2025

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Economic Value

You have already sold the theory to China, Cuckerbeard and, therefore...

Hym "The economic value of said theory is set in stone. Whatever China paid when you committed an act of treason is what the theory is worth and that is only the beginning of what I'm owed. Don't let this piece of shit sacrifice your kid. You don't care that much. It isn't as important to you as it is to me."

by Hym Iam April 21, 2025

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