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

By illuminating the philosophical roots of the various notions of knowledge employed by economists, this Handbook helps to disentangle conceptual and typological issues surrounding the debate on knowledge amongst economists. Wide-ranging in scope, it explores fundamental aspects of the relationship between knowledge and economics – such as the nature of knowledge, knowledge acquisition and knowledge diffusion.

‘This Handbook is both an excellent resource and a challenge for the community of scholars inspired by the Austrian tradition. It both demonstrates the ongoing-relevance of the Austrian perspective in the context of the contemporary social sciences landscape and it is a source of a wealth of bold ideas on possible new research directions for the Austrian agenda in the coming years.’
– Paul Dragos Aligica, Review of Austrian Economics

‘While there is growing recognition that understanding knowledge is at the very heart of economics, little work has thus far been forthcoming representing in a comprehensive and coherent way its fundamental nature and wide-ranging consequences for economic analysis. The editors are to be commended for having filled this critical gap by providing a well-organized collection of outstanding contributions. This rich and greatly needed Handbook is comprised 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 St Gallen, Switzerland