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Synopsis
The economics of knowledge is a rapidly emerging sub-discipline of economics that has never before been given the comprehensive and cohesive treatment found in this book. Dominique Foray analyses the deep conceptual and structural transformation of our economic activities that has led to a gradual shift to knowledge-intensive activities. This transformation is the result of the collision of a longstanding trend - the expansion of knowledge-based investments and activities - with a technological revolution that radically altered the production and transmission of knowledge and information. The book focuses on the dual nature of the economics of knowledge: its emergence as a discipline (which Foray calls "the economics of knowledge") and the historical development of a particular period in the growth and organisation of economic activities ("the knowledge-based economy"). The book, which alternates between analysis of the economic transformation and examination of the tools and concepts of the discipline, begins by discussing "knowledge" as an economic good and the historical development of the knowledge-based economies. It then develops a conceptual framework for considering the iss
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"Dominique Foray is to be congratulated for producing the first full-blown text on the economics of knowledge. This wide ranging, interesting, and valuable book will surely be the touchstone by which other studies are judged. Foray focuses hard on knowledge itself, not information or data, and by doing so has produced an original and much needed study."--Larry Prusak, Distinguished Scholar, Babson College
About the Author
Dominique Foray holds the Chair in Economics and Management of Innovation and is Director of the College of Management of Technology at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. He is the author of The Economics of Knowledge (MIT Press, 2004).
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- PublisherMIT Press
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0262062399
- ISBN 13 9780262062398
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages288
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