Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix 1 Introduction 1 Part I The Rise of the Intangible Economy 2 Capital's Vanishing Act 15 3 How to Measure Intangible Investment 36 4 What's Different about Intangible Investment? The Four S's of Intangibles 58 Part II The Consequences of the Rise of the Intangible Economy 5 Intangibles, Investment, Productivity, and Secular Stagnation 91 6 Intangibles and the Rise of Inequality 118 7 Infrastructure for Intangibles, and Intangible Infrastructure 144 8 The Challenge of Financing an Intangible Economy 158 9 Competing, Managing, and Investing in the Intangible Economy 182 10 Public Policy in an Intangible Economy: Five Hard Questions 208 11 Summary, Conclusion, and the Way Ahead 239 Notes 243 References 253 Index 267

About the Author

Jonathan Haskel is professor of economics at Imperial College Business School. Stian Westlake is advisor to the UK Minister of Science and Innovation. Haskel and Westlake were cowinners of the 2017 Indigo Prize.

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