Consuming Knowledge: Studying Knowledge Use in Leisure and Work Activities

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1. IntroductionIntroduction: Consuming Knowledge -- Plan of the Exposition -- Contrasting Disciplinal Frameworks in the Study of Consumption -- Studying Non-Work Activities -- An Interactive System in Non-Work Activities -- Estimation of the Activity System -- Disturbances to the Activity System: Studying Effects of Environments -- Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 2. Dimensioning Consumption: The Use of Knowledge in Non-Work Activities -- Factor Inputs in Non-Work Activities -- Consumer Objectives in Non-Work Activities -- Identity-Yielding Non-Work Activities -- Functional Form for a Multi-Factor Non-Work Activity System -- Dynamic Properties of the Activity System -- Examining the Sensitivities of Dynamic Activities through Simulation -- Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- Appendix: Multi-Factor Activity System -- References -- 3. The Construct of the Valuing of Knowledge and Personal Consumption Expenditure in the U.S. National Accounts 1929-1989 -- Measurement of the Value Constructs -- Constructing the Value Series -- Examining the Relationship between the Value and Experience Stock Constructs and Personal Consumption Expenditure -- Investigating Dynamic Variation in the Value Constructs: Income and Education Effects -- Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- Appendix A: Unit Root Tests -- Appendix B: Autocorrelation-Robust Regression Estimates -- Appendix C: Value Construct Data -- References -- 4. The Interaction of Non-work and Work Activities: Cross-domain Transfers of Skill and Affect -- Introduction: The Study of Transfers between Non-Work and Work Domains -- Representing Interaction in the Non-Work and Work Domains -- Cross-Domain Productivity Effects -- Evaluating the Sensitivity of Work Activities to the Intensity of Knowledge in Non-Work Activities -- Discussion -- Summary and Conclusions -- References -- 5. Integrating Non-work Activities into Frameworks of Economic Growth -- Production from Knowledge in Growth Frameworks -- Linking Consumption to Growth through Non-Work Activities -- Growth Model -- Comparative Study of Non-Work Activities in Economic Growth -- Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 6. Directions for the Study of Knowledge Use in Non-Work Activities -- Summary of the Exposition -- Investigating the Acquisition and Use of Knowledge in Non-Work Activities: Overview of an Agenda -- Conceptualization and Measurement of Stocks of Knowledge in Non-Work Activities -- The Construct of the Valuing of Knowledge and Knowledge Use in Non-Work Activities -- Constructing Identity in Non-Work Activities: Integrating Environments and Agency -- Institutional Environments of Non-Work Activities -- Extending the Activity Framework -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Appendix: Story Sample for Content Analyses of the Value Constructs.

10.1007/978-1-4615-4615-3 [DOI]

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