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Synopsis
Silver, whose field is not noted, contrasts knowledge-yielding with conventional goods and services as factors in the construction of activities consumers engage in when they are not in the workplace. He finds that consumers decide on non-work activities and the inputs to those activities according to their objectives, and the values and cumulated skills they hold. His topics include the effects of the environment on disturbances to the activity system, constructing the valuing of knowledge and personal consumption expenditure in the US national accounts 1929-89, integrating non-work activities into frameworks of economic growth, and directions for studying knowledge use in non-work activities. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR