The Price of Prestige

114 chapter four Although the Canadian initiative did not result in a special recogni- tion for middle powers in the United Nati ...

a contest of beneficence 115 and have to protect their position from pressures from both above and below. A sort of internationa ...

116 chapter four suggests that middle powers are no more prosocial or moral than other countries but rather that their location ...

a contest of beneficence 117 a consequence, over time there has been a decline in the participation of great powers and classic ...

118 chapter four The rise and fall of the Nordic model provides an instructive example of the cyclical nature of status symbols. ...

a contest of beneficence 119 help are one and the same. Actors’ prosocial investment is compensated through increased prestige a ...

120 chapter four of prosociality is driven by an exchange of material and social capitals. As Veblen, Polanyi, Mauss, Bataille, ...

chapter five Big Science and the Transits of Venus The First Race to Space When history looks at the 20 th century, she will see ...

122 chapter five dollar science and technoscience projects in the face of such a political- economic environment highlights the ...

big science and the transits of venus 123 project, as examples of conspicuous consumption. To illustrate this point, in the firs ...

124 chapter five distinguish between India’s space program, which works “in the service of India’s real socio- economic needs,” ...

big science and the transits of venus 125 of this restructuring were the International Space Station (ISS), an ex- travagant joi ...

126 chapter five Science was used to define projects that “required large scale organization, massive commitment of funds, and c ...

big science and the transits of venus 127 industrialization, and modernity, which are valued by contemporary inter- national soc ...

128 chapter five dependent on expectations for gains on the international level. Big Sci- ence is often described explicitly as ...

big science and the transits of venus 129 R & D is dwarfed by Big Science investment in military, nuclear, and space program ...

130 chapter five What are the expected benefits? Who benefits? And to the extent that such a question can be objectively answere ...

big science and the transits of venus 131 externalities can be the explicit aim of Big Science, such as in the case of European ...

132 chapter five assume that governments are more interested in the potential value of the inventor than in the often unintellig ...

big science and the transits of venus 133 burden of fundamental discovery for us, that universities would carry it as a byproduc ...