The
Knowledge Economy
By
Dale Neef (editor)
ButterWorth-Heinemenn, 1997 - 272 pages
This book is a collection of articles by different authors
dealing with the knowledge economy. I began reading this book
hoping to find some answers to some of my thoughts on the
changing economy and the first article by Mr. Drucker blew my
mind away. I LOVED IT.
The book is separated into different sections:
1. The Changing Economic Landscape
2. Knowledge as the
Economic Force of Growth and Change
3. Measuring and Managing
the Intangibles of Knowledge
4. Learning Organizations in the
Global Knowledge-Based Economy
5. Society and Public Policy:
Government, Education, and Training in the Knowledge-Based
Economy
Some authors included Robert Reich, Peter Drucker and
Lester Thurow. I found another article by Stan Davis and Jim
Botkin to be very interesting also.
I found that the first article in each section tended to be
the most interesting within each section. I don't know if it
was intentionally designed this way or not but, at the end of
the day, I found at least 3 articles in this book or about
90-100 pages total that completely stimulated my mind.
I believe every educated person should take an economics
course, more specifically one that teaches them the importance
of their career path on the impact to the society in which
they live in. We are moving into a world where economic
distribution is becoming more skewed towards the knowledge
worker and one where societies based on knowledge will
increasingly generate greater wealth than other countries.
We are moving into a world where wealth creation is biased
towards the creation of knowledge and how that knowledge is
manipulated to create additional knowledge. Nations that
continue to dominate their economic agenda based on natural
resources and industrialization may do decent but they will
continually fall behind the fastest growing countries. Why is
it that the CRB (a commodity index) has DECLINED over the past
20 years and not risen? After all, is demand for such products
not greater than ever? Why is it then that such countries
aren't the economic powerhouses? If you seek answers to such
questions this should be an interesting read for you. Don't
expect every article to excite you…But what few nuggets you
find will truly enrich your knowledge.
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