Series: Resources for the Knowledge-Based Economy What happens to our understanding of economics when the vast majority of people within our economy are employed to create ideas, solve problems, or market and sell services rather than to produce tangible goods? How do we measure non-financial "intangibles" such as human capital or the effect of R & D? This anthology explores how economists and public policy makers are re-thinking the way in which governments measure, monitor, and influence an economy in an unbounded global environment where output is largely intangible and organizations are becoming increasingly "non-national" in scope. Through a collection of seminal articles written by prominent business people, academics, and public policy makers, this three-part anthology examines the key issues surrounding the economic impact of knowledge-based growth, including: * preparing for the effects of technological change * understanding the change in traditional economic theory * how Research and Development will be affected * who will be the global "knowledge police"? Most business people think of economics in terms of growth, interest rates, and inflation. This book is unique in that it focuses on the economic impact of knowledge-based growth in order to provide business people with a bigger picture of the knowledge management case for action with their organizations. The most up-to-date and most relevant articles on the subject Unique focus on the theme of knowledge Organized logically, with a foreword to introduce each section.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Uncertainty and technological change / Nathan Rosenberg -- Falling behind : the productivity problem / Robert Heilbroner and Lester C. Thurow -- Science, economic growth, and public policy / Richard R. Nelson and Paul M. Romer -- Science and technology investment and policy in the global economy / A. Michael Spence -- Intellectual property : America's competitive advantage in the twenty-first century / Bruce A. Lehman -- Power shift : the age of non-state actors / Jessica T. Mathews ---- The knowledge-based economy : from the economics of knowledge to the learning economy / Dominique Foray and Bengt-Åke Lundvall -- The contribution of economic theory to the understanding of a knowledge-based economy / Giovanni Dosi -- The idea of ideas / Jim Rohwer -- Knowledge buyers, sellers, and brokers : the political economy of knowledge / Laurence Prusak and Don Cohen -- A system of profound knowledge / W. Edwards Deming -- The knowledge-creating company / Ikujiro Nonaka -- Measuring the performance of a knowledge-based economy / Anne P. Carter -- Productivity, R & D, and the data constraint / Zvi Griliches -- The capitalization, amortization, and value-relevance of R & D / Baruch Lev and Theodore Sougiannis -- Measures that matter : an exploratory investigation of investors' information needs and value priorities / Sarah Mavrinac and G. Anthony Siesfeld -- Measuring and managing technological knowledge / Roger E. Bohn -- Putting the balanced scorecard to work / Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton -- The options approach to capital investment / Avinash K. Dixit and Robert S. Pindyck.

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