Knowledge and Intelligence as Factors of Production

Zvi Griliches, R& D, Education, and Productivity: A Retrospective
Jack Hirshleifer, "The Private and Social Value of Information and the Reward to Inventive Activity", American Economic Review 61 (1971): 561--574 [JSTOR]

Gar Alperovitz and Lew Daly, Unjust Deserts: How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance [Blurb]
T. Di Matteo, T. Aste and M. Gallegati, "Innovation flow through social networks: Productivity distribution", physics/0406091 [Those look an awful lot like log-normals to me.]
Dominique Foray, The Economics of Knowledge [blurb]
Joel Mokyr, The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy
Giovanni Peri, "Determinants of Knowledge Flows and Their Effect on Innovation", Review of Economics and Statistics 87 (2005): 308--322
Mike Rose, The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker
Nicole J. Saam, "The Role of Consumers in Innovation Processes in Markets", Rationality and Society 17 (2005): 343--380 ["What is the effect of the fallible knowledge of consumers on knowledge accumulation in markets? This is the question which this article investigates based on Hayek��s evolutionary concept of competition as a discovery procedure and of Popper��s concept of fallible knowledge. The article presents results from a simulation model. It tests the hypothesis that the growth rate of knowledge accumulation of an industry should decrease with the increase in fallible knowledge of consumers. Surprisingly, under certain conditions, the growth rate of knowledge accumulation of an industry increases with the increase in fallible knowledge of consumers."]

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