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The Politics of Knowledge

  • ISBN-13: 9789812309259
  • Publisher: ISEAS
    Imprint: ISEAS
  • Edited by Swee-Hock Saw, Edited by Danny Quah
  • Price: AUD $116.00
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  • Local release date: 29/07/2009
  • Format: Hardback (215.00mm X 139.00mm) 208 pages Weight: 387g
  • Categories: Politics & government [JP]
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The publication of this book, comprising chapters written by distinguished scholars, is a timely recognition that these days we are bombarded by suggestions that knowledge is power, that we are operating in a knowledge economy, and that the greatest driver for financial growth and national development is the knowledge industry. There are more sources of knowledge available to a wider range of the world's population than ever before. The Internet has made the dissemination of knowledge possible in ways not contemplated fifty years ago. National boundaries are crossed with consummate ease. Knowledge is not like other assets. It can be accessed rapidly and used by thousands, often millions, of people. This makes knowledge as an asset that generated much of the wealth in the early development of most nations. And different countries and regions need different strategies to support and promote the growth of their knowledge economies. These call for nationally and regionally-based approaches, and they entail new dynamics and challenges in wealth creation, legal regulation, national and social organization and the protection of environmental and natural resources. This title is issued jointly by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Danny Quah is the Head of Department and Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science
The Politics of Knowledge; Preliminary pages; 1. Role of Knowledge in the Transformation of Asia, by Lee Hsien Loong; 2. Understanding the Politics of Knowledge: The Asian Perspective, by Saw Swee-Hock Mustafa Izzuddin; 3. Truth, Free Speech and Knowledge: The Human Rights Contribution, by Conor Gearty; 4. Knowledge: The Driver of Economic Growth, by Danny Quah; 5. Commerce vs the Common Conflicts over the Commericialisation of Biomedical Knowledge, by Nickolas Rose; 6. A Global Deal on Climate Change, by Nicholas Stern; 7. The Changing Politics of Religious Knowledge in Asia: The Case of Indonesia, by John Sidel Index.
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