Handbook of Knowledge and Economics
Published on 29. June 2012
Book
Hardback
544 pages
978-1-84376-404-5 (ISBN)
Description
Why do societies benefit differently from knowledge? How exactly does social interaction interfere with knowledge acquisition and diffusion? This original Handbook brings together a wide range of differing approaches to shed light on these questions and others relating to the role and relevance of knowledge in economic analysis. By illuminating the philosophical roots of the various notions of knowledge employed by economists, this Handbook helps to disentangle conceptual and typological issues surrounding the debate on knowledge among economists. Wide-ranging in scope, it explores fundamental aspects of the relationship between knowledge and economics - such as the nature of knowledge, knowledge acquisition and knowledge diffusion.
This important compendium embraces various fields and traditions of economic analysis and discusses the role of knowledge in 21 papers from outstanding international scholars. Advanced scholars and postgraduate students interested in cross-fertilization between different fields of economic analysis will find this Handbook of considerable importance.
Contributors: A. Amin, R. Arena, M. Augier, M.C. Becker, T. Brenner, T. Broekel, P. Cohendet, G. Dosi, J. Durieu, V. Dutraive, M. Egidi, A. Festre, D. Foray, T. Knudsen, N. Lazaric, B.J. Loasby, B.-A. Lundvall, P. Nightingale, B. Nooteboom, A. Orlean, R. Patalano, L. Ragni, S. Rizzello, P.P. Saviotti, P. Solal, A. Spada, U. Witt
This important compendium embraces various fields and traditions of economic analysis and discusses the role of knowledge in 21 papers from outstanding international scholars. Advanced scholars and postgraduate students interested in cross-fertilization between different fields of economic analysis will find this Handbook of considerable importance.
Contributors: A. Amin, R. Arena, M. Augier, M.C. Becker, T. Brenner, T. Broekel, P. Cohendet, G. Dosi, J. Durieu, V. Dutraive, M. Egidi, A. Festre, D. Foray, T. Knudsen, N. Lazaric, B.J. Loasby, B.-A. Lundvall, P. Nightingale, B. Nooteboom, A. Orlean, R. Patalano, L. Ragni, S. Rizzello, P.P. Saviotti, P. Solal, A. Spada, U. Witt
Reviews / Votes
While there is growing recognition that understanding knowledge is at the very heart of economics, little work has been coming forth thus far representing in a comprehensive and coherent way its fundamental nature and wide-ranging consequences for economic analysis. The editors, Richard Arena, Agnes Festre, and Nathalie Lazaric, are to be commended for having filled this critical gap by providing a well-organized collection of outstanding articles. This rich and greatly needed Handbook, comprises of contributions about the role knowledge plays in the history of the discipline as well as the most significant current developments as we witness them, particularly in the branches of evolutionary, institutional and complexity economics.- --Kurt Dopfer, University of Gallen, Switzerland
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cheltenham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84376-404-5 (9781843764045)
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Persons
Edited by Richard Arena, Professor of Economics, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis and GREDEG - UMR 7321, Agnes Festre, Professor of Economics, University of Picardie Jules Verne/CRIISEA, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis and GREDEG - UMR 7321 and Nathalie Lazaric, Research Professor, CNRS, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis and GREDEG - UMR 7321, France
Content
Contents:
Introduction
Richard Arena, Agnes Festre and Nathalie Lazaric
PART I: KNOWLEDGE AND ECONOMICS: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
2. What Vilfredo Pareto Brought to the Economics of Knowledge
Ludovic Ragni
3. Knowledge in Marshall
Brian J. Loasby
4. Carl Menger and Friedrich von Wieser on the Role of Knowledge and Beliefs in the Emergence and Evolution of Institutions
Agnes Festre
5. The Pragmatist View of Knowledge and Beliefs in Institutional Economics: The Significance of Habits of Thought, Transactions and Institutions in the Conception of Economic Behavior
Veronique Dutraive
6. Imagination and Perception as Gateways to Knowledge: The Unexplored Affinity between Boulding and Hayek
Roberta Patalano
7. The knowledge-Rationality Connection in Herbert Simon
Salvatore Rizzello and Anna Spada
PART II: ECONOMICS, KNOWLEDGE AND UNCERTAINTY
8. A Note on Information, Knowledge and Economic Theory
Giovanni Dosi
9. The Cognitive Explanation of Economic Behavior: From Simon to Kahneman
Massimo Egidi
10. Towards a Theoretical Framework for the Generation and Utilization of Knowledge
Pier Paolo Saviotti
11. Models of Adaptive Learning in Game Theory
Jacques Durieu and Philippe Solal
12. The Fragility of Experiential Knowledge
Dominique Foray
13. One Knowledge Base or Many Knowledge Pools?
Bengt-Ake Lundvall
14. Knowledge in Finance: Objective Value versus Convention
Andre Orlean
PART III: ECONOMICS, KNOWLEDGE AND ORGANIZATION
15. Embodied Cognition, Organization and Innovation
Bart Nooteboom
16. Knowledge and its Economic Characteristics: A Conceptual Clarification
Ulrich Witt, Tom Broekel and Thomas Brenner
17. Tacit Knowledge
Paul Nightingale
18. The Firm as a 'Platform of Communities': A Contribution to the Knowledge-based Approach of the Firm
Ash Amin and Patrick Cohendet
19. The Architecture and Management of Knowledge in Organizations
Mie Augier and Thorbjorn Knudsen
20. Distributed Knowledge and its Coordination
Markus C. Becker
21. Evolution of Individual and Organizational Knowledge: Exploring Some Motivational Triggers Enabling Change
Nathalie Lazaric
Index
Introduction
Richard Arena, Agnes Festre and Nathalie Lazaric
PART I: KNOWLEDGE AND ECONOMICS: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
2. What Vilfredo Pareto Brought to the Economics of Knowledge
Ludovic Ragni
3. Knowledge in Marshall
Brian J. Loasby
4. Carl Menger and Friedrich von Wieser on the Role of Knowledge and Beliefs in the Emergence and Evolution of Institutions
Agnes Festre
5. The Pragmatist View of Knowledge and Beliefs in Institutional Economics: The Significance of Habits of Thought, Transactions and Institutions in the Conception of Economic Behavior
Veronique Dutraive
6. Imagination and Perception as Gateways to Knowledge: The Unexplored Affinity between Boulding and Hayek
Roberta Patalano
7. The knowledge-Rationality Connection in Herbert Simon
Salvatore Rizzello and Anna Spada
PART II: ECONOMICS, KNOWLEDGE AND UNCERTAINTY
8. A Note on Information, Knowledge and Economic Theory
Giovanni Dosi
9. The Cognitive Explanation of Economic Behavior: From Simon to Kahneman
Massimo Egidi
10. Towards a Theoretical Framework for the Generation and Utilization of Knowledge
Pier Paolo Saviotti
11. Models of Adaptive Learning in Game Theory
Jacques Durieu and Philippe Solal
12. The Fragility of Experiential Knowledge
Dominique Foray
13. One Knowledge Base or Many Knowledge Pools?
Bengt-Ake Lundvall
14. Knowledge in Finance: Objective Value versus Convention
Andre Orlean
PART III: ECONOMICS, KNOWLEDGE AND ORGANIZATION
15. Embodied Cognition, Organization and Innovation
Bart Nooteboom
16. Knowledge and its Economic Characteristics: A Conceptual Clarification
Ulrich Witt, Tom Broekel and Thomas Brenner
17. Tacit Knowledge
Paul Nightingale
18. The Firm as a 'Platform of Communities': A Contribution to the Knowledge-based Approach of the Firm
Ash Amin and Patrick Cohendet
19. The Architecture and Management of Knowledge in Organizations
Mie Augier and Thorbjorn Knudsen
20. Distributed Knowledge and its Coordination
Markus C. Becker
21. Evolution of Individual and Organizational Knowledge: Exploring Some Motivational Triggers Enabling Change
Nathalie Lazaric
Index