The Political Economy of the Space Age: How Science and Technology Shape the Evolution of Human Society - Paperbackby Andrea Sommariva (Author) This book provides answers to the questions of why human kind should go into space, and on the relative roles of governments and markets in the evolution of the space economy. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach to answer those questions. Science and technology define the boundaries of what is possible. The realization of the possible depends on economic, institutional, and political factors. The book thus draws from