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Governing Markets as Knowledge Commons

Erwin Dekker Pavel Kuchař (King's College London)

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Cambridge University Press
18 April 2024
Knowledge commons facilitate voluntary private interactions in markets and societies. These shared pools of knowledge consist of intellectual and legal infrastructures that both enable and constrain private initiatives. This volume brings together theoretical and empirical approaches that develop and apply the Governing Knowledge Commons framework to the evolution of various kinds of shared knowledge structures that underpin exchanges of goods, services, and ideas. Chapters offer vivid and illuminating case studies that illustrate this conceptual framework. How did pooling scientific knowledge enable the Industrial Revolution? How do social networks underpin the credit system enabling the Agra footwear market? How did the market category Scotch whisky emerge and who has access to it? What is the potential of blockchain-ledgers as shared knowledge repositories? This volume demonstrates the importance of shared knowledge in modern society.
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Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 230mm,  Width: 150mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   426g
ISBN:   9781108728959
ISBN 10:   1108728952
Series:   Cambridge Studies on Governing Knowledge Commons
Pages:   290
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Erwin Dekker is Associate Professor of Cultural Economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is the author of Jan Tinbergen (1903–1994) and the Rise of Economic Expertise (Cambridge, 2021) and The Viennese Students of Civilization (Cambridge, 2016). Pavel Kuchař is a lecturer at the University of Bristol and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. His work has been published in the Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Econ Journal Watch and Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology.

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