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Knowledge: Its Creation, Distribution and Economic Significance, Volume I: Knowledge and Knowledge Production
1981
by
Machlup
Knowledge Economics
Innovation
Monopolistic Competition
Economic Development
Human Capital
Opportunity Cost
Marxism
National Income
Demography
Adam Smith
Division of Labor
Friedrich List
Resource Allocation
Arthur Cecil Pigou
Egalitarianism
Inflation
Value Judgments
Education
Valuation
Epistemology
Karl Popper
Productivity
Plato
Uncertainty
Aristotle
Immanuel Kant
Joseph Schumpeter
Methodology
Positivism
Auguste Comte
Human Action
John Stuart Mill
Jeremy Bentham
Friedrich A. Hayek
Max Weber
Frank Knight
Consumer Sovereignty
Phenomenology
Israel Kirzner
Economic Goods
Price Theory
Entrepreneurship
Labor Market
Investment
Exchange Value
Marginal Utility
Scarcity
Use Value
Alfred Marshall
John Hicks
Paul Samuelson
Welfare Economics
Externalities
Public Goods
Income Distribution
Vilfredo Pareto
Fritz Machlup
Table of Contents · 122 segments
1
Title Pages and Publication Information
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2
Contents
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3
Analytical Table of Contents
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4
Preface
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5
The Story of This Work: Introductory Note
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6
How One Thing Led to Another
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7
Public Lectures and Sponsored Research
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8
The Publication of the 1962 Volume
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9
The Outline of the 1962 Book
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10
How the Book Was Received
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11
The Multiversity, Knowledge Industry, and International Reactions
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12
Demands for Updated Statistics and Research for a New Work
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13
Chapter 1 Introduction: George and Interdisciplinary Work
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14
The Economist as a Student of Knowledge Production
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15
Knowledge as a Datum in Economic Analysis
theoretical
16
Knowledge as a Product, a Function of Resource Allocation
theoretical
17
Terminological Proposals: Production and Distribution
theoretical
18
Terminological Proposals: Knowledge and Information
theoretical
19
The Program for This Work: Reasons for Economic Analysis
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20
In Quest of Light or Fruit?
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21
A Preview of the Eight Volumes
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22
Introduction: Projected Volumes VII–VIII and Knowledge-Producing Occupations
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23
A Preview of Volume I
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24
Expanded Empirical Agenda: Literature, Questions, Porat, and Research Support
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25
Scope of the Expanding Work
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26
Two Charges and Apologies: Going Too Far Afield
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27
Valuing the Invaluable
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28
Part One: Types of Knowledge
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29
Chapter 2 Opening: The Known and the Knowing
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30
The Double Meaning of Knowledge and Knowledge-Of/Knowledge-About
theoretical
31
To Know That versus to Know How
theoretical
32
To Know What, to Know That, and to Know How
theoretical
33
The Special Status of Knowing That
theoretical
34
An Assortment of Knowns and Knowings: Questions
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35
Examples of Knowing: Questions and Answers Continued
theoretical
36
Arrangement by Interrogative Pronoun
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37
Further Comments on Knowing That and Knowing How
theoretical
38
Elements and Modes of Knowing: Overview
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39
The Examples Surveyed for Different Modes of Knowing
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40
The Elements of Knowing
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41
Modes as Combinations of Elements
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42
Degrees of Knowing: Introduction
theoretical
43
Elements, Modes, and Degrees
theoretical
44
More Details, More Accuracy, More Confidence
theoretical
45
Information and Knowledge: To Know and to Inform
theoretical
46
Enduring Knowledge and Timely Information
theoretical
47
Chapter 3: Mundane Knowledge and Everyday Learning
theoretical
48
Scientific Knowledge: Classical Semantics and Exclusion of Empirical Inquiry
theoretical
49
Scientific Knowledge: Empirical Sciences, Linguistic Variance, and a Cosmopolitan Definition
theoretical
50
Humanistic Knowledge: Terminology, Humanism, and Academic Emergence
theoretical
51
Humanists’ Identity Crisis and Legal-Institutional Definitions
theoretical
52
Antiscientism, Scientism, and the Two Cultures
theoretical
53
Characteristics and Definition Problems of the Humanities
theoretical
54
Social-Science Knowledge: Historical Development and Methodological Controversies
theoretical
55
Social Sciences as Academic Subject Group and the Limits of Broad Classification
theoretical
56
Artistic Knowledge: Liberal Arts, Fine Arts, and Practical Knowledge
theoretical
57
Artistic Creation and Communication as Knowledge Production
theoretical
58
Knowledge Without Words: Nonverbal Arts, Sense Perception, and Mundane Experience
theoretical
59
Knowing a Tune and Knowing a Feeling
theoretical
60
Knowledge as a Mere Euphemism
theoretical
61
Chapter 4: Alternative Classifications of Knowledge—Overview
theoretical
62
Basic and Applied Knowledge
theoretical
63
Theoretical, Historical, Abstract, Concrete, Analytical, and Empirical Knowledge
theoretical
64
Knowledge of Enduring and Transitory Interest
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65
Knowledge for Many and Knowledge for Only a Few
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66
Instrumental, Intellectual, Spiritual, and the Five Chosen Classes of Knowledge
theoretical
67
Part Two Introduction: Qualities of Knowledge
theoretical
68
Chapter 5 Opening: Knowledge Versus Belief
theoretical
69
Knowledge and Truth: Facts, Propositions, Verification, and Falsification
theoretical
70
Truth Requirements and the Production of Knowledge
theoretical
71
Knowledge, Beauty, and Goodness
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72
Chapter 6: Other Standards of Quality
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73
Chapter 7: Notions of Negative Knowledge
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74
Part Three: Knowledge as a Product
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Chapter 8: Choosers and Users of Knowledge
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76
Chapter 9: Stocks, Flows, and Recorded Knowledge
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77
Scientific Journals as a Measure of Recorded Knowledge
theoretical
78
The Role of Books in Recorded Knowledge
theoretical
79
Knowledge in Human Minds and the Social Stock of Knowledge
theoretical
80
The Flow of Knowledge, Money Measurement, and Human Capital
theoretical
81
Generation, Dissemination, Use, Accumulation, Replacement, Consumption, and Waste
theoretical
82
Chapter 10: Private, Social, and Costless Knowledge
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83
Alertness, Search, Serendipity, and Initiative in Knowledge Production
theoretical
84
Chapter 11: Transmission, Reception, Techniques, and Intentions
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85
Eight Levels of Individual Knowledge Transmitters
theoretical
86
Knowledge Receiving as Knowledge Production
theoretical
87
Chapter 12 Introduction: Consumption, Investment, and Intermediate Knowledge
theoretical
88
Production as Valuable Input for Valuable Output
theoretical
89
Investment in Knowledge versus Investment for Knowledge
theoretical
90
Knowledge as an Intermediate Product
theoretical
91
Knowledge-Producing Personnel in Business Firms
theoretical
92
Instruments for the Production of Knowledge
theoretical
93
Who Pays and How: Accounting Rules versus Economic Use
theoretical
94
Chatting and Amateur Knowledge Production
theoretical
95
Chapter 13 Introduction: Uses, Value, and Benefits of Knowledge
theoretical
96
Information Service and Knowledge Acquired
theoretical
97
Pastime Knowledge, Practical Knowledge, and Use
theoretical
98
Process versus Contents of Information
theoretical
99
Examples of Non-Action-Oriented Knowledge Use
theoretical
100
The Value of Knowledge, Marginal Utility, and Individual Valuation
theoretical
101
Practical and Intellectual Knowledge
theoretical
102
Private and Social Value of Education
theoretical
103
Higher Earnings for Longer Schooling
theoretical
104
An Alternative Notion of the Value of Schooling
theoretical
105
Scientific Journals, Consumer Surplus, and the Benefits/Value Transition
theoretical
106
Benefit-and-Cost Analysis and Five Types of Comparisons
theoretical
107
Who Pays, Who Benefits, and Distributional Equity
theoretical
108
Eager Ophelimetricians and the Critique of Total Benefit Measurement
theoretical
109
Chapter 14: Knowledge Industries and Measurement Problems
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110
Industry versus Occupation Approaches to Knowledge Production
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111
Definition of Knowledge Industry and Information Goods
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Definition of Knowledge Occupation and Input-Output Contrast
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113
Arbitrariness in Defining Knowledge Industries
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114
A Heuristic Complete Division of Labor
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115
Interindustry Trade, Intraindustry Use, and Statistical Approaches
chapter
116
Major Knowledge Industries and Branches
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117
Occupational Structure of Firms and Technological Innovation
chapter
118
Marc Porat's Information Economy and National Accounting
chapter
119
Strategies and Tactics in Quantitative Analysis
chapter
120
Concordance Tables: Lines and Pages from the 1962 Volume
bibliography
121
Index
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122
Library of Congress Cataloging Data and Author Bio
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