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Book SynopsisFocuses on the contribution by Don Lamberton. This volume explores the struggle for recognition of a way of thinking which is fundamental to the understanding of the social and economic role of information. Issues like the plight of the information poor, the poverty of information policy, the future of universal service, are emphasised throughout.
Trade ReviewTwenty-eight papers, honoring Don M. Lamberton of the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University, address the economics of information and organization. Papers focus on the work of Don Lamberton; information, the economy and society; knowledge and innovation; organizations and markets; telecommunications policy and economic development; and internationalization and information. Journal of Economic Literature The most striking feature of this volume is indeed the diversity of subject domain that the themes of information problems in economics encompass. ...This is a very interesting and high quality book, each chapter self-contained by reference and thoroughly indexed. Economic Analysis & Policy
Table of ContentsAbbreviated Contents: Perspectives on D.M. Lamberton. A questioning career (S. Macdonald, J. Nightingale). Select bibliography (D.M. Lamberton). Lamberton's road to cognitive economics (G. Paquet). Information, Economy and Society. Data, information, and inadvertent disinformation (G. Rosegger). Power, politics and public administration (J. Marceau). Designing institutions in the information society (P. Drahos). Knowledge and Innovation. Codified knowledge and innovation: a model (T. Mandeville). On the informational structure and functioning of Japanese organisations - a comparison with western organisations. (H. Oniki). Sisyphus at his exercise: the Internet and consumer-business relations in the US (R.Widdows, K.L. Widdows). Organisations and Markets. The organisational impact of knowledge (B. Martin). Communication, information technology and firm performance (G. Eliasson). Price behaviour within segments of the medical profession in Australia (D.P. Doessel). Telecommunications Policy and Economic Development. Telecommunications policy and the rhetoric of economics (R.A. Joseph). Electronic communications in African development: tracking their impact (M. Menou). The information infrastructure and economic development: how far have we come? Internationalisation and Information. Information and knowledge in the study of internationalisation (L.S. Welch). International knowledge spillovers, absorptive capacity and productivity in OECD countries (H-J. Englebrecht). Globalisation and macroeconomic volatility (N.D. Karunaratne). Author index. Subject index.
