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Jefferson Cowie and Joseph Heathcott, eds. Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization . Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. xvi + 372 pp. ISBN 0-8014-8871-0, $24.95 (paper).

One hopes that this valuable book will prompt greater precision in current debates over science and technology policy. Policymakers may wish to acknowledge, for example, that patents are important for attracting capital to faculty start-ups without claiming that they promote the general good, and continue to refine policy accordingly. In any case, policymakers and researchers should reckon with the book’s major findings: Bayh-Dole’s insertion of academic research into a system of intellectual property rights was only one of many causes of increased patenting activity; failure to see this has meant BayhDole’s benefits have been exaggerated and prematurely generalized across disciplinary lines. Efforts to find better mixtures of private and public control, or to move beyond these current categories, or to combine economic efficiency with deeper definitions of the public good, will be helped by this book’s combination of historical intelligence, empirical grounding, and careful synthesis.