Journal of Economic Geography Advance Access originally published online on September 9, 2008
Journal of Economic Geography 2009 9(2):285-287; doi:10.1093/jeg/lbn037
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Knowledge economies: innovation, organization and location
Wilfred Dolfsma
Knowledge economies: innovation, organization and location
Wilfred Dolfsma
London and New York: Routledge, 2008. 159 pp. Price: £60.00 (hardback).
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This book discusses the nature of knowledge, knowledge development and knowledge diffusion—topics that should be of interest to economic geographers. It seeks to show that knowledge and information are the key resources behind the dynamics of an economy. However, since he is both an economist and philosopher, Dolfsma undertakes these issues from a slightly different perspective than economic geographers might be used to. In order to understand the knowledge economy, Dolfsma draws from a diverse set of theoretical traditions and approaches: political science, sociology, history and economic geography to mention a few. That being said, this book is still firmly anchored in a relatively traditional (neoclassical) economic theoretical framework and methodology. The book is a monograph consisting of papers which have already or are about to be published, but they have been rewritten to fit together.
The argument is developed through a traditional structure;
Department of Geography,
University of Toronto