@article{13265,
      recid = {13265},
      author = {Mokyr, Joel,},
      title = {The gifts of Athena : historical origins of the knowledge  economy /},
      pages = {xiii, 359 pages :},
      note = {Publisher description:  http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/prin022/2002025105.htmlLæs  Publisher description online.},
      abstract = {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 ac.},
      url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/13265},
}