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Revision with unchanged content. My objective is to deepen debate about the competitiveness of nations in a glo bal knowledge based economy. I first demonstrate the inadequacies of the Standard Model of economics, the last ideology standing after the Mar ket-Marx Wars. Second, I apply trans-disciplinary induction to acquire know ledge about knowledge redefining ideology as commensurable concepts sha red across knowledge domains and practices. Third, I define knowledge as noun, verb, form and content in etymology, psychology, epistemology & ped agogy, law and economics. Fourth, I consider the Nation-State, the shif ting sands of sovereignty on which it stands and its role as curator, facilitator, patron, architect and engineer of the national knowledge-base. Fifth, I pre sent a production function in which all inputs, outputs and coefficients are know ledge-based. I demonstrate competitiveness as Darwinian win/lose is in a dequate not accounting for mutualism of symbionts and environmental change then proposing fitness as the appropriate criterion. Finally, I consider com parative advantage given differing national knowledge endowments. The book is addressed all persons interested in the knowledge-based e co nom y.

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PhD, Cultural Economist & Publisher - Compiler Press: Intellectual Property in the Global Village, Lecturer in Economics & Agricultural Economics, University of Saskatchewan.

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