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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Fritz Machlup, Friedrich Katz, Rene Wellek, Emil Kaufmann, Heinrich Friedjung, Gustav Bergmann, Viktor Tausk, Otto Pacht, Taras Borodajkewycz, Aschner, Isaac Tyrnau, Abraham Brill, Benno Landsberger, Rudolf Simek, Eugen Kolisko, Konstantin Josef Jire ek, Ernst Badian, Philipp Frank, Johann von Dumreicher, Ivan Horbachevsky, Edmund Hauler, Walter Ullmann, Theodor von Frimmel, Eskeles, Lazar Horowitz, Leander Czerny, Emil Zuckerkandl, Frank Tannenbaum, Hermann Mittelberger, Heinz Politzer, Anton Gindely, Joachim Jacob Unger, Adolf Zsigmondy, Max Schur, Jakob Rosanes, Rudolf Poch, Ludwig Redtenbacher, Solomon Lowisohn, Max Dvo ak, Josef Keil, Moriz Heider, Erich Frauwallner, Wilhelm Baum, Elise Richter, Richard Wahle, Georg Gustav Roskoff, Alfred von Domaszewski, Johann Hauler, Johann Heinrich Pabst, Siegfried Becher, Hugo von Tschudi, Herbert Hunger, Ernst Straussler, Olga Hahn-Neurath, Julius Lippert, Herwig Wolfram, Otto Kurz, Gustav Gluck, August Breisky, Gustav Kafka, Rudolf von Urban, Leo Navratil, Gustave E. von Grunebaum, Artem Ohandjanian, Oskar Zoth, Hermann Hunger, Alfred Amonn, Edmund Weiss, Fritz Saxl, Ernst Pulgram, Eduard Castle, Jochem Schindler, Carl Grunberg, Peter Skalicky, Christoph Badelt, Johann Sahulka, Otto Benesch, Solomon Gandz. Excerpt: Fritz Machlup (December 15, 1902 - January 30, 1983) was an Austrian-American economist. He was notable for being one of the first economists to examine knowledge as an economic resource. Born in Wiener-Neustadt, he earned his doctorate at the University of Vienna. He fled Nazi Germany for the United States in 1933 and became a US citizen in 1940. Machlup's key work was The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States (1962), which is credited with popularizing the concept of the information society. Shortly before his death he completed the t...