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Unequal Access to Scientific Knowledge

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  • Charles Tilly

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In the past, unequal control over such resources as coercive means, labour, animals, and land has caused the bulk of the world's inequality among social categories; in recent decades, unequal control over scientific knowledge has become an increasingly powerful cause of social inequality. Producers and distributors of scientific knowledge have strong incentives to withhold it from people who need it and to profit from its use. From that fact flow acute dilemmas for those who wish to spread the benefits of knowledge to the neediest.

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  • Charles Tilly, 2007. "Unequal Access to Scientific Knowledge," Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 8(2), pages 245-258.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jhudca:v:8:y:2007:i:2:p:245-258
    DOI: 10.1080/14649880701371133
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    1. Michele Capriati, 2011. "Public Expenditure and Human Development in the Italian Regions," QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria, Associazione Rossi Doria, issue 2, June.
    2. Charles J. Gomez & Andrew C. Herman & Paolo Parigi, 2022. "Leading countries in global science increasingly receive more citations than other countries doing similar research," Nature Human Behaviour, Nature, vol. 6(7), pages 919-929, July.

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