Introduction -- Knowledge and learning -- Creating knowledge : transfer, exchange and gifts -- Development of economic knowledge : paradigms & new ideas -- Knowledge exchange in networks : within-firm analysis -- Knowledge exchange between firms : economic geography of high-tech firms -- The...

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Knowledge and learning -- chapter 3 Creating knowledge: Transfer, exchange and gifts -- chapter 4 Development of economic knowledge: Paradigms and new ideas -- chapter 5 Knowledge exchange in networks: within-firm analysis -- chapter 6 Knowledge exchange...

For an economy where knowledge plays an increasingly important role in shaping its dynamics, economics needs a dynamic (Schumpeterian) welfare theory. This paper sketches the role of knowledge in an economy and argues that a static Paretian welfare economics is inadequate, or at least needs to...