What might be called, perhaps somewhat grandiloquently, the Epistemological Question has received rather scant attention at the hands of economists. There are, of course, a number of epistemological questions, some of which lie more in the province of the philosopher than they do the economist or the social sceintist. The one with which I am particularly concerned here is that of the role of knowledge in social systems, both as a product of the past and as a determinant of the future.
p. 1, cited in: Brian Chi-ang Lin (2007) "A New Vision of the Knowledge Economy" - The economics of knowledge and the knowledge of economics, 1966
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