Knowledge-Based Hierarchies: Using Organizations to Understand the Economy
综述了将知识获取、使用和沟通的组织决策纳入经济模型的研究，探讨了工资不平等、企业生产率、经济发展、国际贸易收益以及离岸外包和国际生产团队形成等问题，并回顾了支持组织决策重要性的实证文献。
Incorporating the decision of how to organize the acquisition, use, and communication of knowledge into economic models is essential to understand a wide variety of economic phenomena. We survey the literature that has used knowledge-based hierarchies to study issues such as the evolution of wage inequality, the growth and productivity of firms, economic development, and the gains from international trade, as well as offshoring and the formation of international production teams. We also review the nascent empirical literature that has, so far, confirmed the importance of organizational decisions and many of their more salient implications.