Harvesting People
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- Title: Harvesting People: Toward the Political Economy of a Knowledge Society
- Author(s): Alexander Kouzmin, Shankar Sankaran, Stewart Hase
- Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
- Collection: Common Ground Research Networks
- Series: Organization Studies
- Journal Title: The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture, and Change Management: Annual Review
- Keywords: 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 D
- Volume: 4
- Issue: 1
- Date: September 24, 2005
- ISSN: 1447-9524 (Print)
- ISSN: 1447-9575 (Online)
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18848/1447-9524/CGP/v04/59216
- Citation: Kouzmin, Alexander, Shankar Sankaran, and Stewart Hase. 2005. "Harvesting People: Toward the Political Economy of a Knowledge Society." The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture, and Change Management: Annual Review 4 (1): 0-0. doi:10.18848/1447-9524/CGP/v04/59216.
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Abstract
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.