The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States marked the beginning of the study of our postindustrial information society. Austrian-born eco

With this first of eight volumes, the eminent economist Fritz Machlup launches his monumental inquiry into the production of knowledge as an economic activity.

Contemporary capitalistic systems have been undergoing profound transformations determined by the transition towards the so-called knowledge based economy, i.e.

Excerpt from The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States Had it not been for the persuasive powers of Father William T. Hogan, s.i., of Fo