Handbook of Knowledge and Economics

Edited by Richard Arena, Professor of Economics, University of Nice–Sophia Antipolis and GREDEG – UMR 7321, Agnès Festré, Professor of Economics, University of Picardie Jules Verne/CRIISEA, University of Nice–Sophia Antipolis and GREDEG – UMR 7321 and Nathalie Lazaric, Research Professor, CNRS, University of Nice–Sophia Antipolis and GREDEG – UMR 7321, France

• Contents:IntroductionRichard Arena, Agnès Festré and Nathalie LazaricPART I: KNOWLEDGE AND ECONOMICS: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE2. What Vilfredo Pareto Brought to the Economics of KnowledgeLudovic Ragni 3. Knowledge in MarshallBrian J. Loasby 4. Carl Menger and Friedrich von Wieser on the Role of Knowledge and Beliefs in the Emergence and Evolution of InstitutionsAgnès Festré 5. The Pragmatist View of Knowledge and Beliefs in Institutional Economics: The Significance of Habits of Thought, Transactions and Institutions in the Conception of Economic BehaviorVéronique Dutraive 6. Imagination and Perception as Gateways to Knowledge: The Unexplored Affinity between Boulding and HayekRoberta Patalano 7. The knowledge–Rationality Connection in Herbert SimonSalvatore Rizzello and Anna Spada PART II: ECONOMICS, KNOWLEDGE AND UNCERTAINTY8. A Note on Information, Knowledge and Economic TheoryGiovanni Dosi 9. The Cognitive Explanation of Economic Behavior: From Simon to KahnemanMassimo Egidi 10. Towards a Theoretical Framework for the Generation and Utilization of KnowledgePier Paolo Saviotti 11. Models of Adaptive Learning in Game TheoryJacques Durieu and Philippe Solal 12. The Fragility of Experiential KnowledgeDominique Foray 13. One Knowledge Base or Many Knowledge Pools?Bengt-Åke Lundvall 14. Knowledge in Finance: Objective Value versus Convention André Orléan PART III: ECONOMICS, KNOWLEDGE AND ORGANIZATION15. Embodied Cognition, Organization and InnovationBart Nooteboom 16. Knowledge and its Economic Characteristics: A Conceptual Clarification Ulrich Witt, Tom Broekel and Thomas Brenner17. Tacit KnowledgePaul Nightingale 18. The Firm as a ‘Platform of Communities’: A Contribution to the Knowledge-based Approach of the Firm Ash Amin and Patrick Cohendet 19. The Architecture and Management of Knowledge in OrganizationsMie Augier and Thorbjørn Knudsen 20. Distributed Knowledge and its CoordinationMarkus C. Becker 21. Evolution of Individual and Organizational Knowledge: Exploring Some Motivational Triggers Enabling ChangeNathalie Lazaric Index

While there is growing recognition that understanding knowledge is at the very heart of economics, little work has been coming forth thus far representing in a comprehensive and coherent way its fundamental nature and wide-ranging consequences for economic analysis. The editors, Richard Arena, Agnes Festre, and Nathalie Lazaric, are to be commended for having filled this critical gap by providing a well-organized collection of outstanding articles. This rich and greatly needed Handbook, comprises of contributions about the role knowledge plays in the history of the discipline as well as the most significant current developments as we witness them, particularly in the branches of evolutionary, institutional and complexity economics. - --Kurt Dopfer, University of Gallen, Switzerland