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As economic activity has become more information-intensive and ideas about the information society have been canvassed widely, information technology has overshadowed thinking about the role of communication and information. In the advanced economies investment in information-handling equipment has grown rapidly in importance and almost throughout the world telecommunications facilities are advocated as the leading edge of development.

This wide-ranging collection charts the responses of the economics discipline to these changes, initially slowly but with gathering pace, as communication and information have moved from the sidelines to centre stage.

This book will be an indispensible reference source by all those in the economics community, those interested in information science, library studies and communication.



Table of Contents
Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Overview Part II: Information, Organization and Efficiency Part III: Macrorealities Part IV: Management and Technology Part V: International Aspects Part VI: Information Policy Part VII: Selected Classics Part VIII: New Directions Part IX: Bibliography Index

The Economics of Communication and Information

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      Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
      Published 7 November 1996
      ISBN-13 9781858982946
      978-1858982946
      ISBN-10 1858982944
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      Economics Information technology industries Information theory

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      As economic activity has become more information-intensive and ideas about the information society have been canvassed widely, information technology has overshadowed thinking about the role of communication and information. In the advanced economies investment in information-handling equipment has grown rapidly in importance and almost throughout the world telecommunications facilities are advocated as the leading edge of development.

      This wide-ranging collection charts the responses of the economics discipline to these changes, initially slowly but with gathering pace, as communication and information have moved from the sidelines to centre stage.

      This book will be an indispensible reference source by all those in the economics community, those interested in information science, library studies and communication.



      Table of Contents
      Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Overview Part II: Information, Organization and Efficiency Part III: Macrorealities Part IV: Management and Technology Part V: International Aspects Part VI: Information Policy Part VII: Selected Classics Part VIII: New Directions Part IX: Bibliography Index

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