Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Analytical Table Of Contents vii
4. Foreword xvii
5. Acknowledgments xix
6. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
7. Part One. The Economics of Knowledge and Information
8. Chapter 2. Old Roots and New Growth 15
9. Chapter 3. Information and Prices: Futures, Insurance, and Product Markets 42
10. Chapter 4. Labor Markets and Financial Markets 78
11. Chapter 5. Public Decisions and Public Goods 121
12. Chapter 6. New Knowledge, Dispersed Information, and Central Planning 159
13. Chapter 7. Empirical Research, Theoretical Analysis, Applied Inquiry 205
14. Appendix to Chapter 7. Contents of Economic Journals: Relative Shares of Empirical, Theoretical, and Applied Work 235
15. Chapter 8. Economic Agents, Equilibria, and Expectations 245
16. Chapter 9. The Expanding Specialty: Surveys and Classifications 283
17. Chapter 10. A New Classification 313
18. Chapter 11. A Sample Bibliography 335
19. Part Two. Knowledge as Human Capital
20. Chapter 12. Basic Notions of Capital Theory 403
21. Chapter 13. Investment in Human Resources and Productive Knowledge 419
22. Chapter 14. Private and Social Valuation 439
23. Chapter 15. Human Capacity, Created by Nature and Nurture 453
24. Chapter 16. The Route from Investments to Returns 468
25. Chapter 17. Production Functions: The Choice of Variables 492
26. Chapter 18. Productivity Versus Credentials 523
27. Chapter 19. Depreciation of Knowledge Stocks and Human Capital 538
28. Chapter 20. Profiles of Lifetime Learning and Earning 577
29. Chapter 21. Rates of Return to Investment in Education 590
30. Index 611