Author(s): Richard Arena (Editor), Agnès Festré (Editor), Nathalie Lazaric (Editor)
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publication Date: 29 Jun. 2012
Language: English
Print length: 544 pages
ISBN-10: 1843764040
ISBN-13: 9781843764045
Book 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
Editorial Reviews
Review
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
About the Author
Edited by Richard Arena, Professor of Economics, University of Nice–Sophia Antipolis and GREDEG – UMR 7321, Agnès Festré, 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
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