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Book SynopsisFritz Machlup (190283), the Austrian-American economist, is recognized as one of the first scholars to examine knowledge as an economic resource and, for more than half a century, many other economists and management theorists have also argued that economic growth isor soon will bedependent on the effective acquisition, transmission, and application of information and ideas.
As serious scholarly work on and around the knowledge economy' continues to flourish, this new four-volume collection from Routledge's Critical Concepts in Economics series meets the need for an authoritative, up-to-date, and comprehensive reference work to make better sense of a voluminousand somewhat amorphousbody of literature. The Economics of Knowledge and the Knowledge-Driven Economy provides a one-stop' collection of classic and contemporary contributions to facilitate ready access to the most influential and important scholarship from a wide range of theoretical and practical perspectives. A
