This paper discusses several features of knowledge that are often considered crucial for characterizing the economic significance of knowledge: whether it is overtly accessible or tacit, whether it can be or is encoded or not, and whether it has public or private good character. It is argued that all these features depend similarly on the state of the knowledge technology, i.e. on how knowledge...

This article compares black and white student beneficiaries under the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance (OASDI) program during the 1972-73 school year from the standpoint of differences in economic and educational characteristics. The role that OASDI played in enabling students to continue in school full time is studied. The findings show that relatively more blacks were in the stude...

today, south korea has become a successful pattern for less- developed countries. this article attempts to explain its successful experience in economic development in the framework of pattern of non-democratic developmental state. in this pattern developed by adrian leftwich, the main focus is on political-sociological context affecting economic development. the main characteristics of develop...

OBJECTIVE To examine the influence of individual- and area-level socio-economic characteristics on food choice behaviour and dietary intake. SETTING The city of Eindhoven in the south-east Netherlands. DESIGN A total of 1339 men and women aged 25-79 years were sampled from 85 areas (mean number of participants per area = 18.4, range 2-49). Information on socio-economic position (SEP) and di...

Pacific Economic Bulletin Volume 8 Number 2 1993 © Asia Pacific Press The South Pacific is unique, not because its geographical, biological, sociological and economic characteristics are found nowhere else in the world, but because the combination of these characteristics in the region is special. The region is characterised by a high degree of ecosystem and species diversity, an extraordinary ...