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Measuring a Society’s Knowledge Base

Bhekuzulu Khumalo (bhekuzulu.khumalo@gmail.com)

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: The quest to measure knowledge effectively will in no doubt lead to better knowledge policies of governments around the world in both developing and developed countries. This paper endeavours to seta sound theoretical base for measuring knowledge and does this by demonstrating that existing tools used by economists for measuring knowledge are largely self contradictory, they contradict existing theory. Knowledge to be measured effectively we must give knowledge its own units like weight and length have their own units, only then can we say how much knowledge one needs to carry out a particular task.

Keywords: knowl; knowledge (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A1 B41 O2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-10-09, Revised 2007-06-17
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