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The growth of technological and scientific knowledge in the past two centuries has been the overriding dynamic element in the economic and social history of the world. Its result is now often called the knowledge economy. But what are the historical origins of this revolution and what have been its mechanisms? In The Gifts of Athena, Joel Mokyr constructs an original framework to analyze the concept of "useful" knowledge. He argues that the growth explosion in the modern West in the past two centuries was driven not just by the appearance of new technological ideas but also by the improved access to these ideas in society at large--as made possible by social networks comprising universities, publishers, professional sciences, and kindred institutions. Through a wealth of historical evidence set in clear and lively prose, he shows that changes in the intellectual and social environment and the institutional background in which knowledge was generated and disseminated brought about the Industrial Revolution, followed by sustained economic growth and continuing technological change. Mokyr draws a link between intellectual forces such as the European enlightenment and subsequent economic changes of the nineteenth century, and follows their development into the twentieth century. He further explores some of the key implications of the knowledge revolution. Among these is the rise and fall of the "factory system" as an organizing principle of modern economic organization. He analyzes the impact of this revolution on information technology and communications as well as on the public's state of health and the structure of households. By examining the social and political roots of resistance to new knowledge, Mokyr also links growth in knowledge to political economy and connects the economic history of technology to the New Institutional Economics. The Gifts of Athena provides crucial insights into a matter of fundamental concern to a range of disciplines including economics, economic history, political economy, the history of technology, and the history of science.

Economic development --- Technological innovations --- History. --- Economic aspects --- Knowledge economy. --- Economy of knowledge --- Information economy --- KBE (Knowledge-based economy) --- Knowledge-based economy --- Economics --- Economic aspects&delete& --- History --- E-books --- Breakthroughs, Technological --- Innovations, Industrial --- Innovations, Technological --- Technical innovations --- Technological breakthroughs --- Technological change --- Creative ability in technology --- Inventions --- Domestication of technology --- Innovation relay centers --- Research, Industrial --- Technology transfer --- 338 <09> --- Economische geschiedenis --- Knowledge economy --- 338.064 --- 331.100 --- AA / International- internationaal --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden --- 338 <09> Economische geschiedenis --- Intellectual life --- Innovations --- Développement économique --- Vie intellectuelle --- Aspect économique --- Histoire --- World history --- TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS -- 930.33 --- TECHNOLOGY -- 930.33 --- KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY -- 930.33 --- Technological innovations - Economic aspects - History --- Economic development - History

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This study reports evidence from an unusual policy intervention- The Reaching Out of School Children (ROSC) project in Bangladesh where school grants and education allowances are offered to attract hard-to-reach children to schools comprised of a single teacher and a classroom. The operating unit cost of these schools is a fraction of that of formal primary schools. Panel data is used to investigate whether ROSC schools are effective in raising enrolment and learning outcomes. The findings suggest that there is a modest impact on school participation: ROSC schools increase enrolment probability between 9 and 18 percent for children in the two age cohorts 6 to 8 and 6 to 10. They perform as well as non-ROSC schools in terms of raising test scores, and even have positive impacts on academically stronger students. There is also strong evidence of positive externalities on non-ROSC schools in program areas. These results point to the effectiveness of a new model of non-formal primary schools that can be replicated in similar settings. This paper consists of following sections: section one gives introduction. The context for the country and the program description is provided in section two, and the data is described in section three. The impacts of the ROSC project on education outcomes as measured by student enrolment and test scores are discussed in section four and other program effects are considered in section five, with the empirical estimation frameworks being respectively detailed in each section. The relative efficiency of ROSC schools versus non-ROSC schools is discussed in section six and section seven gives conclusion.

Community Involvement --- Curriculum --- Education --- Education For All --- Education For the Knowledge Economy --- Educational Outcomes --- Expenditures --- Household Surveys --- Human Capital --- Human Development --- Human Resources --- Literacy --- Living Standards --- Needs Assessment --- Orphans --- Primary Education --- Quality of Education --- Reading --- Sanitation --- Schools --- Secondary Education --- Student-Teacher Ratio --- Teacher Salaries --- Teacher Training --- Teachers --- Teaching and Learning --- Tertiary Education --- Textbooks --- Universal Primary Education

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"This book explores the relationship between space and economy, the spatial expressions of the knowledge economy. The capitalist industrial economy produced its own space, which differed radically from its predecessor agrarian and mercantile economies. If a new knowledge-based economy is emerging, it is similarly expected to produce its own space to suit the new circumstances of production and consumption. If these spatial expressions do exist, even if in incomplete and partial forms, they are likely to be the model for the future of cities."--Book jacket.

Theory of knowledge --- Economic geography --- cities --- industrial towns --- epistemology --- urban sociology --- Knowledge --- -911.375 --- Economic aspects --- Steden. Studie van stedelijke vestiging. Geografie van steden. Stadsgeografie --- Cities and towns --- Knowledge economy --- Knowledge management --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Sociology, Urban --- Space in economics --- 911.375 --- Spatial economics --- Economics --- Regional economics --- Urban sociology --- Epistemology --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Management of knowledge assets --- Management --- Information technology --- Intellectual capital --- Organizational learning --- Economy of knowledge --- Information economy --- KBE (Knowledge-based economy) --- Knowledge-based economy --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Human settlements --- Social aspects