Book description
This
highly original book provides an engaging and critical introduction to the
knowledge economy. The knowledge economy is a potent force pervading global
and national policy circles. Yet few people outside the field of economics
understand its central ideas and practices. This book makes these
accessible. But it does much more.
It provokes 'conversations' between the
knowledge economy and those marginalised economies that haunt it: the risk,
gift, libidinal and survival economies. These illuminate the knowledge
economy's shortcomings and point to alternative possible systems of exchange
and sets of values. This multi-disciplinary study takes the knowledge
economy out of the hands of the economists and brings it into creative
tension with the ideas of key thinkers from sociology, anthropology,
philosophy and ecology.
Illustrating the benefits of conversing
with the ghosts of alternative economies, this provocative book will
unsettle the way in which the knowledge economy is understood
Ground-breaking and globally applicable, it has been authored by
internationally respected authors and its conceptual breadth pertains to a
range of disciplines and gives it its wide appeal. [Publisher's website]
About the author
Jane Kenway is a Professor in the Faculty
of Education at
Monash University.
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