1. The price of knowledge
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Nico Stehr and Marian Adolf
- Subjects
Value (ethics) ,Bens públicos ,lcsh:HM401-1281 ,Human capital ,Valor do conhecimento ,Intangíveis ,Politics ,Preço do conhecimento ,0502 economics and business ,Personal knowledge management ,Economics ,Sociology ,050207 economics ,Positive economics ,Empirical evidence ,050205 econometrics ,Capital humano ,business.industry ,Knowledge economy ,05 social sciences ,Modern economy ,Knowledge value chain ,General Social Sciences ,Economia moderna ,Public good ,Social relation ,Epistemology ,Variety (cybernetics) ,Philosophy ,lcsh:Sociology (General) ,Organizational learning ,Sociology of knowledge ,business ,Citation ,050203 business & management ,Patentes - Abstract
Our article addresses the question how to assess and measure the value or price of knowledge, and probes the issue from a variety of social scientific and practical perspectives. Against the background of a sociological concept of knowledge, economic, political, social, and juridical perspectives that may lead to a price of knowledge are discussed. We observe that knowledge is seen to play an ever greater role within as well as across economies and politics; that its embodiment makes it difficult to divorce it from its carriers; and that knowledge is deeply entrenched in questions of social relations and stratification. As such, it is cannot be captured in a straightforward manner, especially given the persistent stand-off between its individual, economic, and public relevancies and benefits. A simple arithmetic of the price of knowledge fails.
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- 2018
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