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A Knowledge Theory of Capital:The Value of Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Volume 1

This volume develops a knowledge theory of capital for economies in which productive capacity increasingly resides in software, data, models, routines, expertise, platforms, organizations, commons, and public epistemic infrastructure. Beginning from Adam Smith's theory of labour, stock, specialization, and market extent, it asks what changes when knowledge becomes stock-like, mobile across forms, scalable, governable, recombinable, and imperfectly visible in accounting. The book introduces knowledge-bearing stock as the central object and analyses how it is generated, converted into governable form, deployed, improved through feedback, enclosed or shared, measured, impaired, and used as i...

AuthorsJeffrey Gardiner
Primary categoryecon.GN
Published12 June 2026
Last updated at source28 June 2026
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