ABSTRACT
This book seeks to explain long-term economic development and institutional change in terms of the cognitive features of human learning and communication processes. Martens links individual cognitive processes to macroeconomic growth theories, including economies of scale and scope, and to theories of institutional development based on asymmetric i
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |12 pages
Introduction
part |2 pages
Part I Knowledge and Economics
chapter |15 pages
The Uneasy Relationship Between Knowledge and Economics
chapter |16 pages
The Role of Distributed Knowledge in Economics
part |2 pages
Part II The Principle of Cognitive Economy
chapter |23 pages
Knowledge and the Principle of Cognitive Economy
chapter |15 pages
Communication and Distributed Knowledge
chapter |17 pages
The Economy as a Knowledge Communication System
chapter |16 pages
Economies of Scope
part |3 pages
Part III The Cognitive Mechanics of Institutional Change