The Transfer of Economic Knowledge

Edited by Ernst Mohr, former Professor of Economics, University of St Gallen, Switzerland

This innovative book sheds new light on the various transfer processes of economic knowledge from the academic environment to the outside world. The internationally acclaimed group of authors considers the transfer of knowledge in the teaching of economics, through public policy advice, and the spread of ideas across disciplinary boundaries.

“经济学的学科production function just like any industry: its inputs are the papers and books of professional economists; its output is economic knowledge which is put to use by business and government, taught to students, and fed back into still more economic knowledge. In the process of the transfer of economic knowledge, economic knowledge becomes different but does it get any better? This is the question raised by every one of the contributors to this volume, which includes some of the leading members of our profession. This is a book that is only too easy to recommend to my colleagues.’
– The late Mark Blaug, formerly of the University of London and University of Buckingham, UK