Analytical evaluation of the process of converting science to commodity and Analysis of the Conventional approach of the economics of science from an Islamic perspective

Abstract

Commodification of affairs and concepts and justifying them to physical goods is the process that began from the formation of conventional economics. At this process gradually it has been struggled to put up all affairs and concepts below economic logic and marketized them to transactions. Knowledge is a concept that commoditized after the 1950s. This article has been written in an analytical method on the basis of economic philosophy by a critical approach to the commodification of knowledge. Knowledge is the capital and transactive structure that has been entered into economic literature and formed economics of science. Based on economics of science, knowledge can enter the transaction as a commodity on one hand and as capital into economic growth function to improve production and wealth. Staying knowledge as market agent defined the market as the main motivator of knowledge production and ignored other motivators like need, culture, politics, security, wish and taste. Changing of conditions from marketized knowledge to progressive and perfect knowledge needs some institutions that can satisfy scientist’s wishes and incentives into parallel priority.

Keywords

• economics of science
• economization
• commodification
• marketization