This volume revisits the mutually constitutive relationship between science and capitalism from the seventeenth century to the present day. Adopting a global approach, we reject the notion that either science or capitalism can be understood as stages of modernity that emerged in the West and subsequently engendered a “Great Divergence” with the rest of the world. Instead, both science and capitalism were historical institutions that arose in an imperial context of global exchange and whose entanglement has been continuously remade. Rather than seek to explain either the development of modern science as a product of economic forces or the divergence of capitalist economies as a result of technical innovation, we want to emphasize the knowledge work that has been a central feature of both modern science and capitalism across the globe.

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引言：科学与资本主义的纠缠历史

本书重新审视了从 17 世纪至今的科学与资本主义之间的相互构成关系。采用全球方法，我们拒绝将科学或资本主义理解为西方出现并随后与世界其他地区产生“大分歧”的现代性阶段的观点。相反，科学和资本主义都是在全球交换的帝国背景下产生的历史制度，它们的纠缠不断被重塑。与其试图将现代科学的发展解释为经济力量的产物，或者将资本主义经济的分化解释为技术创新的结果，我们更想强调知识工作，它一直是现代科学和资本主义的核心特征。全球。