Volume 27 Issue 4 (2009)
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Current Trends in Knowledge Production: An Historical–Institutional Analysis
Building on the author’s recent survey of Western knowledge institutions since antiquity, this article assesses the impact of current trends in information technology, higher education, science, and the environment on…
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Reinventing Knowledge Systems: With an Application to Recent Systemic Changes in East and South Asia
The paper is built around a critique of the recent book by McNeely and Wolverton, entitled Reinventing Knowledge. The paper first contests the concepts of ‘knowledge’ and ‘institutions’, before arguing…
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Knowledge Directed Economic Selection and Growth
The single most important postulate in economics is (the state space). The assumption you make determines the costs of information and learning when exploring that state space, the nature of…
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Information Technology and the Economics of Storing, Spreading and Generating Knowledge
This paper examines the future for the growth and transmission of knowledge with a particular focus on the collision between the zero‐marginal‐cost economics of online publishing and the finite attention…
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Pathological Knowledge‐Based Economies: Towards a Knowledge‐Based Economy Perspective on the Current Crisis
The crisis that started on Wall Street in mid‐2007 and that has turned into a global financial and economic crisis is also a crisis of knowledge‐based economies (KBEs). In fact,…