Objectives
The overall aim should be for a rapid increase in the pace of feed-back between 'university-based experts' and 'school-based apprentices' leading to a fall in 'information pass-through rates' in society. A comparison between 'capital' and 'knowledge' development rates along these lines might look like this for the period 1700-2200:
Economic Development Rates
18th Century 175 years England 19th Century 75 years Sweden 20th Century 25 years South Korea 21st Century 15 years Cape Town?
| 18th century | 175 years | Old textbooks die off (eg Birch) |
| 19th Century | 75 years | Old professors die off (eg Marshall) |
| 20th Century | 25 years | Old schools die off (eg Chicago ) |
| 21st Century | 15 years | Knowledge 'ecosystem' |
Click here for further discussion of the internet strategy and web-based research programme proposed for the Stockholm University Economic History Institute.
Friday 4th June 1999