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#Nationalism [19th century] "is founded on treating #knowledge not as something that should be shared, as a basis for some kind of consensus through publishing, through contributing knowledge to the common good. Knowledge starts to be treated as some kind of #commodity…

A key issue in the 17th century #ScientificRevolution…was that #research findings had to be made #open to the community. The same thing with #accounting & #statistics. They’re there for the public."

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/a-political-economist-on-the-end-of-the-age-of-objectivity