The Missing Middle: Technicians, Innovation and Advanced Manufacturing
In: The Training We Need Now: Essays on Technical Training, Life-long Learning and Apprenticeships, ed. D. Goodhart (London: Policy Exchange, 2020)
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In: The Training We Need Now: Essays on Technical Training, Life-long Learning and Apprenticeships, ed. D. Goodhart (London: Policy Exchange, 2020)
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In: Political studies review, Band 15, Heft 3, S. 489-490
ISSN: 1478-9302
In: Forthcoming in Advances in Austrian Economics
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In: Political studies review, Band 14, Heft 4, S. 611-613
ISSN: 1478-9302
In: History of political economy, Band 48, Heft 1, S. 111-150
ISSN: 1527-1919
This article identifies the sources on which Friedrich Hayek drew in order to develop his understanding of the notion of emergence. It is widely acknowledged that the notion of emergence plays a significant role in Hayek's analyses of both the mind and the market. In Hayek's account, the key capacities of the human mind—such as its capacity to enable people to perceive the world around them and to form plans about how to act—are emergent properties of the structured array of neurons found in the human brain. Analogously, Hayek's analysis of the market portrays the coordinative powers of the price mechanism as an emergent property of the social system that is formed when people's (inter)actions are governed by a set of norms that includes both the formal rules of property and tort and contract law, and also informal norms of honesty and promise keeping. However, while several scholars have identified the importance of the notion of emergence in Hayek's thought, none have explored systematically and in detail the sources from which he acquired his knowledge of the concept. This article remedies that omission by examining the history of Hayek's use of the concept of emergence and identifying the sources through which notions of emergence and "emergent properties" entered his thinking. It is argued that the three main sources of influence are as follows: the ideas of the German psychologist Wilhelm Wundt; the work of members of the gestalt school of psychology; and the writings of the organicist biologists Joseph Woodger and Ludwig von Bertalanffy. The significance of the article's findings for those interested in the development of Hayek's economics is also discussed.
In: Cambridge Journal of Economics, Forthcoming
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In: Prepared for the History of Economics Society meeting, Durham NC, 2016
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In: Forthcoming in Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology
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In: Lewis , P 2014 , ' The over-training of apprentices by employers in advanced manufacturing : a theoretical and policy analysis ' , HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT JOURNAL , vol. 24 , no. 4 , pp. 496-513 . https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12039
This article reports the results of a study of the 'over-training' of apprentices by large manufacturers in the UK. The term 'over-training' was traditionally used to refer to the way in which nationalised industries trained more apprentices than they needed, with the 'surplus' being released at the end of their training to find another employer. In contrast, the evidence reported in this article indicates that over-training now typically involves large employers helping to train apprentices who are employed and paid by other firms from the outset. The project examines the extent and nature of over-training, the reasons why employers become involved in over-training, and policy implications. The evidence suggests that over-training can increase the number of high-quality apprenticeships. Large employers need to be made more aware of over-training. Government can help promote over-training via its 'Catapult Centres'.
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In: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2014, DOI: 10.1093/cje/beu043
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In: Human Resource Management Journal (2014), 24 (4): 496-513
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