The Competitiveness of Nations in a Global Knowledge-Based Economy-Ideological Evolution - Softcover

Chartrand, Harry Hillman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3836428040 ISBN 13: 9783836428040

Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K., 2007

Synopsis

My objective is to deepen debate about the competitiveness of nations in a glo­bal knowledge-based economy. I first demonstrate the inadequacies of the Standard Model of economics, the last ideology standing after the Mar­ket-Marx Wars. Second, I apply trans-disciplinary induction to acquire 'know­ledge about knowledge' redefining 'ideology' as commensurable concepts sha­red across knowledge domains and practices. Third, I define knowledge as noun, verb, form and content in etymology, psychology, epistemology & ped­agogy, law and economics. Fourth, I consider the Nation-State, the shif­ting sands of sovereignty on which it stands and its role as curator, facilitator, patron, architect and engineer of the national knowledge-base. Fifth, I pre­sent a production function in which all inputs, outputs and coefficients are know­ledge-based. I demonstrate competitiveness as Darwinian win/lose is in­a­dequate not accounting for mutualism of symbionts and environmental change then proposing fitness as the appropriate criterion. Finally, I consider com­parative advantage given differing national knowledge endowments. The book is addressed all persons interested in the knowledge-based e­co­nom­y.

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About the Author:

PhD, Cultural Economist & Publisher - Compiler Press: Intellectual Property in the Global Village, Lecturer in Economics & Agricultural Economics, University of Saskatchewan.

About this edition

• Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 3836428040
• ISBN 13: 9783836428040
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 316