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Fritz Machlup
Researcher at New York University
Publications - 144
Citations - 7463
Fritz Machlup is an academic researcher from New York University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Balance of payments & Monopoly. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 144 publications receiving 7373 citations. Previous affiliations of Fritz Machlup include University of California, Berkeley & Johns Hopkins University.
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The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States
TL;DR: The production and distribution of knowledge in the United States marked the beginning of the study of our postindustrial information society as mentioned in this paper, and the transformation to a knowledge economy has resonated throughout the rest of the century, especially with the rise of the Internet.
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The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States.
Edwin Mansfield,Fritz Machlup +1 more
TL;DR: Machlup defined knowledge as "any human (or human-induced) activity designed to create, alter, or confirm in a human mind-one's own or anyone else's-a meaningful apperception, awareness, cognizance, or consciousness of whatever it may be" as discussed by the authors.
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Theories of the firm: marginalist, behavioral, managerial
TL;DR: Behaviorism as mentioned in this paper is a theory of the firm that rejects the assumption of marginal analysis that economic action is directed by the objective to maximize the attainment of ends with given means and that business action can be deduced from a postulate that firms attempt to maximize money profits.
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The Patent Controversy in the Nineteenth Century
Fritz Machlup,Edith Penrose +1 more
TL;DR: The patent system has been subjected to investigations by committees of Congress, and reforms have been proposed to meet some of the most serious criticisms as discussed by the authors, and it has been suggested that opposition to the patent system is a new development.