Knowledge: Its Creation, Distribution and Economic Significance, Volume I : : Knowledge and Knowledge Production / / Fritz Machlup.

With this first of eight volumes, the eminent economist Fritz Machlup launches his monumental inquiry into the production of knowledge as an economic activity. Volume I presents the conceptual framework for this inquiry and falls into three parts: Types of Knowledge, Qualities of Knowledge, and Know...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1981
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; Volume I
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Analytical Table Of Contents
  • Preface
  • The Story Of This Work
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part One: Types Of Knowledge
  • 2. The Known and the Knowing
  • 3. Mundane, Scientific, Humanistic, Artistic, and Other Classes of Knowledge
  • 4. Alternative Classifications of Knowledge
  • Part Two. Qualities of Knowledge
  • 5. Truth, Beauty, and Goodness
  • 6 Other Standards of Quality
  • 7 Notions of Negative Knowledge
  • Part Three. Knowledge as a Product
  • 8. Choosers And Users Of Knowledge
  • 9. Stocks And Flows Of Knowledge
  • 10. The Economic Cost of Knowledge
  • 11. Transmission and Reception
  • 12. Consumption, Investment, Intermediate Product
  • 13. Uses, Value, and Benefits of Knowledge
  • 14. Knowledge Industries and Knowledge Occupations
  • List Of Pages With Lines Of Text Retained From The 1962 Volume
  • Index