Talk:Intellectual capital
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I think you missed the liberal economist view, von Hayek, Schumpeter, Pirole ecc. that is very sceptical of Intellectual Capital.
It seems like there was a gap between industrial economy and business lobbyists.
Who wants to bet that this gets hacked with a Stallmanic rant? A Rand rant?
Tolerance is appreciated - these critiques are welcome but please try to remember that outside fringe circles economics don't see Stallman or Rand as major contributors.
One way to approach those issues is that Stallman is big on the instructional value, and subordinating individual contribution to that, whereas Rand is the other way around, seeing all instructional value coming from the individual... but these are extreme views.
Ultimately, those views belong here - and *NOT* in the instructional capital or individual capital entries which are much less controversial notions than this.
Keeping this entry separate is one way to keep the rants away from the economics.
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OK, this is as objective as I can possibly make it. If someone wants to define "political economy" in a way that can take the heat off this entry, good, but there remains a distinct literature of intellectual capital - not wise to ignore it.
I mentioned most of the major theorists in this area. not clear if Lev's idea of "brand capital" deserves a separate article. An article outlining both Baruch Lev and Naomi Klein as "pro-brand" and "anti-brand" is probably worth writing. But their distinctions are critical to explaining how or why "intellectual" could exclude "social", as in this article, so it may become somewhat redundant. Klein objects to brand capital but not to intellectual capital - Shiva is more fundamental so she's covered here.
Gabora is very fundamental and actually making an argument relative to political economy itself - but is worth mentioning here only because the whole issue of "intellectual capital" existing or not is one of whether individuals and instructions can actually be traded off by any process of management, or always play quantitatively different roles...
Badly needs a good article on intellectual property law to explain just where this whole idea of a unified "intellectual capital" came from.