Mata, Tiago; (2013) Science-mart: privatizing American science. Journal of Economic Methodology , 20 (1) pp. 75-81. 10.1080/1350178X.2013.774858.

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Philip Mirowski, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2011, 464 pp., $39.95 (Hardcover) ISBN 978-0-674-04646-7 No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride … and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well … maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten. Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Citation1998 [1971]. In Science-Mart, Philip Mirowski addresses a fictional reader: Viridiana Jones, a novice scientist learning about the social structure of science. I could not resist identifying with Viridiana – even as I disclaim any kinship with the original references: Luis Bunuel's 1961 object of virginal desire and moral corruption and, I guess, Jones on the side of Indiana. I feel as if I know Viridiana. And the Viridiana I know is not as complacent or beholden to the myths of academe as Mirowski takes her to be. I would venture that Viridiana is a pinch less curious and a measure more anomic than Mirowski admits. Like me, she will likely feel an unsettling calling to the words of Hunter S. Thompson, as if fear and loathing were sentiments equally fit to describe our occupation in the present-day university as they did for a drug-propelled tour through Sin City.

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