Information and Communication in Economics
Although there is a burgeoning interest among economists in `information economics', much of the literature adopts a reductionist conceptualization of information, defining it exclusively as reduction in uncertainty, exploring the implications of imperfect information on markets. This neoclassi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1994, 1994
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1994 |
| Series: | Recent Economic Thought
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 The Information Economy Revisited
- Commentary by Gilles Paquet
- 2 The Place of Information in Economics
- 3 Commodities as Sign-systems
- Commentary by Sandra Braman
- 4 The Political Economy of Communication: Lessons from the Founders
- 5 Economic Theory: Rhetoric, Reality, Rationalization
- Commentary by Herbert I. Schiller
- 6 The Political Economy of Communications Research
- 7 All the Editorials Fit to Print: The Politics of “Newsworthiness”
- Commentary by Gertrude J. Robinson
- Reply by Edward S. Herman
- 8 The Information Economy in a Spatial Context: City-states in a Global Village
- Commentary by Nicholas Garnham
- 9 The Emerging Mass Media Environment
- Commentary by Gilles Paquet
- Commentary by Nicholas Garnham
- 10 Application of Neoclassical Economics to African Development: a Curse in Disguise
- 11 Communication, Information, and Transnational Enterprise
- 12 Communications and Economics