The Competitiveness of Nations
in a Global Knowledge-Based Economy
IDEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION
The Competitiveness of Nations
in a Global
Knowledge-Based Economy
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An Individual Interdisciplinary Studies PhD Dissertation
submitted by Harry Hillman Chartrand
© September 2005
to his Advisory Committee
University of
http://members.shaw.ca/competitivenessofnations/
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My objective is to deepen and thicken public and private policy debate about the competitiveness of nations in a global knowledge–based economy. To do so I first demonstrate the inadequacies of the Standard Model of economics, the last ideology standing after the Market-Marx Wars. Second, I develop a methodology (Trans-Disciplinary Induction) to acquire ‘knowledge about knowledge’. In the process of surveying the event horizons of seventeen sub-disciplines of thought, I redefine ‘ideology’ as the search for commensurable sets or systems of ideas shared across knowledge domains and practices. Third, I create a definitional avalanche about knowledge as a noun, verb, form and content in etymology, psychology, epistemology & pedagogy, law and economics. Fourth, I establish the origins and nature of the Nation-State, the shifting sands of sovereignty on which it stands and the complimentary roles it plays as curator, facilitator, patron, architect and engineer of the national knowledge-base. Fifth, I examine the competitiveness of nations with respect to a production function in which all inputs, outputs and coefficients are defined in terms of knowledge. In the process, I demonstrated that competitiveness, as win/lose against rivals, is inadequate because it does not account for symbionts and environmental change. Accordingly, I propose ‘fitness’ as a more appropriate criterion. Finally, I consider the comparative advantage of nations given their initial and differing national knowledge endowments. |
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1.1 Acknowledgements 5
2.0 Problem: A Flawed Ideology 6
2.1 Origins 8
2.2 The Standard Model 9
2.2.1 Epistemology 10
2.2.2 Limitations 12
2.3 Objectives 14
3.0 Methodology: Trans-Disciplinary Induction 19
3.1 Trans- 20
3,2 Disciplinary 20
3.3 Induction 23
3.4 Weaknesses & Strengths 25
4.1 Monotone 27
4.2 Noun 29
4.3 Biology 29
4.4 Immeasurability 33
4.5 Incommensurability 34
4.6 Language 37
5.1 Science 41
5.2 Design 46
5.2.1 Etymology 48
5,2.2 Aesthetics 48
5.2.3 Biology 49
5.2.4 Economics 51
5.2.5 Psychology 53
5.2.6 Technology 54
5.3 Reconciliation 55
5.3.1 Accept the Paradox 55
5.3.2 Design as a Special Case of Science 55
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5.3.3 Science as a Special Case of Design 57
5.3.4 Common Ancestor 59
6.1 As Form 62
6.1.1 Personal & Tacit Knowledge 63
6.1.2 Codified Knowledge 66
6.1.2.1 Innis, McLuhan & Réalism fantastique 68
6.1.2.2 Thomas Shales & the Re-Decade 72
6.1.2.3 William Gibson & Cybercode 73
6.1.3 Tooled Knowledge 73
6.1.3.1 Hard-Tooled 75
6.1.3.1.1 Sensors 76
6.1.3.1.2 Tools 78
6.1.3.1.3 Toys 79
6.1.3.2 Soft-Tooled 80
6.1.3.2.1 Computer & Genomic Programs 80
6.1.3.2.2. Mathematics 82
6.1.3.2.3 Standards `84
6.1.3.2.4 Technique 86
6.1.3.3 Characteristics 87
6.1.3.3.1 Design 87
6.1.3.3.2 Density 90
6.1.3.3.3 Fixation 91
6.1.3.3.4 Vintage 91
6.1.4 Reconciliation 92
6.2 As Input 92
6.2.1 Codified & Tooled Capital 93
6.2.1.1 Cultural 94
6.2.1.2 Financial 94
6.2.1.3 Human 95
6.2.1.4 Legal 95
6.2.1.5 Social 95
6.2.2 Personal & Tacit Labour 96
6.2.2.1 Productive 97
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6.2.2.2 Managerial 97
6.2.2.3 Entrepreneurial 98
6.2.3 Toolable Natural Resources 99
6.3 As Output 100
6.3.1 The Person 100
6.3.2 The Code 104
6.3.3 The Tool 105
6.4 Reconciliation 109
8.0 Etymology 113
8.1 The Word 113
8.1.1 Can 115
8.1.2 Know 115
8.1.3 Knowledge 116
8.1.4 Wit 116
8.1.5 Related & Imported Words 117
8.2 Findings 118
8.3 Reconciliation 119
8.3.1 By the Senses 120
8.3.2 By the Mind 121
8.3.3 By Doing 122
8.3.4 By Experience 122
8.4 Qubit WIT 122
9.0 Psychology 123
9.1 Definitions 123
9.2 Wetware 124
9.3 Software 127
9.3.1 Archetypes & Complexes 128
9.3.2 Faculties 129
9.3.2.1 Reason 129
9.3.2.2 Revelation 130
9.3.2.3 Sentiment 132
9.3.2.3.1 Adam Smith 132
9.3.2.3.2 Grant McCracken 134
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9.3.2.3.3 Ekhart Schlicht 135
9.3.2.4 Sensation 136
9.4 Qubit PSI 139
9.5 Reconciliation 140
10.0 Epistemology & Pedagogy 141
10.1 Domains 142
10.1.1 Natural & Engineering Sciences 144
10.1.2 Humanities & Social Sciences 146
10.1.3 The Arts 150
10.2 The Practices 156
10.3 Reconciliation 158
10.4 Qubit EPI 159
10.5 Qubit PED 160
11.0 Law 161
11.1 The Myth of the Creator 161
11.2 The Matrix 165
11.3 Rights to Know 167
11.3.1 Copyrights & Trademarks 169
11.3.2 Designs & Patents 172
11.3.3 Know-How & Trade Secrets 174
11.3.4 Sui Generis 175
11.4 The Public Domain 176
11.4.1 Economic Commons 176
11.4.2 Legal Principle & Precedent 178
11.4.3 Constitutional & Cultural History 180
11.5 Reconciliation 188
11.6 Qubit IPR 189
12.0 Economics 190
12.1 Disembodied/Embodied 191
12.2 Endogenous/Exogenous 192
12.3 New Growth Theory 193
12.4 Qubit FLX 194
1.2.5 Anti-Climax: A Theory of Knowledge 195
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13.1 Origins 197
13.2 Shifting Sands of Sovereignty 198
13.2.1 Biological 199
13.2.2 Cultural 199
13.2.3 Ideological 202
13.2.4 Military 203
13.2.5 Political Economic 204
13.3 Reconciliation 211
13.4 Governance 212
13.4.1 Custodian 212
13.4.2 Facilitator 212
13.4.3 Patron 213
13.4.4 Architect 214
13.4.5 Engineer 215
14.1 Origins 218
14.2 Production Function 220
14.2.1 Inputs 221
14.2.2 Outputs 222
14.2.3 Reconciliation 224
14.3 Fitness 226
14.3.1 Autonomous Agent 227
14.3.2 Coevolution & Coconstruction 228
14.3.3 Adjacent Possible 229
14.4 Comparative Advantage 230
14.4.1 As Noun 234
14.4.2 As Verb 236
14.4.3 As Form 236
14.4.4 As Content 238
14.4.4.1 Etymology 238
14.4.4.2 Psychology 240
14.4.4.3 Epistemology & Pedagogy 241
14.4.4.4 Law 242
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14.4.4.5 Economics 244
14.4.5 Governance 246
14.5 Competitive Afterthoughts 249
15.0 Conclusions 251
15.1 Knowledge 251
15.1.1 Causal Hierarchies 253
15.1.2 Dirty Hands 254
15.1.3 Ideological Commensurability 255
15.2 Production Function & the Labour Theory of Knowledge 258
15.3 The Nation-State 259
15.3.1 Work, Wealth & Membranes 260
15.3.2 Fitness Limits 260
15.3.3 Econology? 262
References 263
Exhibit 1 Trans-Disciplinary Event Horizon 19
Exhibit 2 Production Function of a Knowledge-Based Economy 225
Exhibit 3 National Knowledge Endowment 232
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An Individual Interdisciplinary Studies PhD Dissertation
submitted by Harry Hillman Chartrand
© September 2005
to his Advisory Committee
University of
http://members.shaw.ca/competitivenessofnations/