Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1

Part I. TECHNOLOGY
1  More Than Inventions 9
2  The Skills of the Unskilled 23
3  Revolutions in Slow Motion 37
4  Standard Knowledge 

Part II. WAGES
5  When Does Technology Raise Wages? 71
6  How the Weavers Got Good Wages 84
7  The Transition Today: Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs 101

Part III. TECHNOLOGY POLICY
8 Does Technology Require More College Diplomas? 137
9 Whose Knowledge Economy? 150
10 Procuring New Knowledge 162
11 The Forgotten History of Knowledge Sharing 175
12 Patents and Early-Stage Knowledge 192
13 The Political Economy of Technical Knowledge 204
14 The Skills of the Many and the Prosperity of Nations 222