科学知识经济学把科学知识作为经济分析的对象,以“科学基本上是社会的”这个命题作为出发点,明确以经济学术语描述科学知识的生产和传播,把来自新制度主义经济学、非合作博弈论、信息理论等领域的概念付诸应用。它对科学知识的生产和传播机制的阐述在理论上有助于应对科学相对主义的威胁,在实践上对制定科学政策有重要的启发意义。 Scientific Knowledge Economics regards scientific knowledge as the object of economic analysis and the proposition that “science is basically social” as its starting point. It explicitly states the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge in economic terms, and from the perspective of economics of neoinstitutionalism, Non-cooperative game theory, information theory and other areas of the concept put into use. Its elaboration on the mechanism of production and dissemination of scientific knowledge can theoretically help to cope with the threat of scientific relativism and is of great significance in formulating scientific policies in practice.