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Harvesting people: toward the political economy of a knowledge society
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Harvesting people: toward the political economy of a knowledge society

Alexander Kouzmin, Shankar Sankaran and Stewart Hase
International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management, Vol.4
2004

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Abstract

Business body-parts industry economic harvesting of people genetic engineering governance health entrepreneurs intergenerational utilities knowledge knowledge economy neo-classical and neo-liberal economics patents pharmaceutical industry research and development

The present patenting of “life” and the rush to economically “harvest” people warrants the Knowledge Management discourse to broaden its focus and its time horizons.

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