[Sigkm-l] Fritz Machlup's Knowledge Economics Books to be Reprinted

[Edward Swanstrom]

GKEC Press Reprints Fritz Machlup's Works

Delivery is scheduled for February 1st, 2003.

In partnership with Princeton University Press, GKEC Press is reprinting the
seminal works of Fritz Machlup starting with "Knowledge Production and
Distribution in the United States" 1962. This work helped start the
knowledge-based movement. Machlup coined terms such as "knowledge-production
worker", "knowledge economy", "knowledge industry", "knowledge half-life",
"information economics", "knowledge economics", as well as many others.
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Over the next year GKEC Press also plans to republish the Machlup series
called:

*Knowledge: Its Creation, Distribution, and Economic Significance* 
Volume I. Knowledge and Knowledge Production 1981 
Volume II. The Branches of Learning 1982
Volume III. The Economics of Information and Human Capital 1984
Along with *The Study of Information: Interdisciplinary Messages* 1983

Table of Contents of *Knowledge Production and Distribution in the United
States*:
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I. Introduction
The Economist as a Student of Knowledge-Production
Knowledge as a Datum in Economic Analysis
Knowledge as a Product, a Function of Resource Allocation
Terminological Proposals
Production and Distribution
Knowledge and Information

II. Types of Knowledge and of Knowledge Production
The Known and the Knowing
Classifications of Knowledge
Methods of Producing Knowledge
Knowledge as Consumption, Investment, or Cost

III. Knowledge-Producing Industries and Occupations
The Knowledge Industry
Industries and Occupations
Firms, Industries, and the Whole Economy

IV. Education

V. Research and Development
Types of Research and Development Work
Expenditures for Research and Development
Inventive Effort and Patent Protection
Research, Company Size, and Competition
The Flow of Ideas in the Inventive Process
Research as the Inventive Process
Research as National Product
The Production of Research

VI. The Media of Communication

VII. Information Machines

VIII. Information Services
Wide Concept of Knowledge Industries
Professional Knowledge Services
Professional Services: Knowledge for Sale
Legal Services
Engineering and Architectural Services
Accounting and Auditing
Medical Services
Information and Financial Services as Joint Products
The Intelligence Service of Wholesale Traders
Miscellaneous Service Industries
Knowledge Received
Knowledge Transmitted
Knowledge Going Both Ways
Government as Knowledge Industry

IX. Total Production of Knowledge and the National Product
Differences in Techniques and Organization
Knowledge Production 1958, by Industry
Knowledge Production and Economic Growth
Growth Rates of the Knowledge Industries

X. Knowledge Production and Occupational Structure
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