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Science 1 December 2000:
Vol. 290. no. 5497, pp. 1701 - 1702
DOI: 10.1126/science.290.5497.1701
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Essays on Science and Society

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ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Privatizing the University--the New Tragedy of the Commons

James Robert Brown

Teaching and research at universities is increasingly funded from private sources. In this essay, Brown highlights the problems associated with this approach and calls for a return to largely public funding. He argues that the public, rather than corporations or individual scientists or even secretive governments, should own the results.

The author is in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 1A1, Canada. E-mail: jrbrown{at}chass.utoronto.ca

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