The editors (all of the U. of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France) present a collection of 21 papers examining both foundational and cutting-edge approaches and concepts concerning the role of knowledge in economics. Opening chapters examine the role of knowledge in economics history, revisiting ideas from Vilfredo Pareto, Alfred Marshall, Carl Menger, Friedrich von Wieser, Kenneth Boulding, Friedrich von Hayek, and Herbert Simon, among others. The next set of papers explore the conceptions, role, and use of knowledge in economics in general and include discussions of cognitive explanations of economic behavior, the theory of the generation and utilization of knowledge, models of adaptive learning in game theory, the fragility of experiential knowledge, and the value of knowledge in finance. The last set of contributions shift focus more explicitly to the role of knowledge in organizations and includes discussions of the notion of embodied cognition in networks, an evolutionary conceptualization of the role of knowledge in economics, the concept of tacit knowledge, knowledge shared by communities of practice, modeling the organization of knowledge, and the implications of distributed knowledge for organizations. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)