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Tables of Contents for The Economics of Communication and Information
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction by the editor: `Threatened Wreckage' or New Paradigm?
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PART I OVERVIEW
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1. Sandra Braman (1989), `Defining Information: An Approach for Policymakers', Telecommunications Policy, 13 (3), September, 233-42
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2. Axel Leijonhufvud (1989), `Information Costs and the Division of Labour', International Social Science Journal, 120, May, 165-76
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3. Robert Wright (1986), `The Information Age: Phantom of the Factory', The Sciences, 26 (4), July/August, 11-14
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PART II INFORMATION, ORGANIZATION AND EFFICIENCY
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4. Donald M. Lamberton (1984), `The Economics of Information and Organization', Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 19, 3-30
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5. Richard R. Nelson (1981), `Assessing Private Enterprise: An Exegesis of Tangled Doctrine', Bell Journal of Economics, 12 (1), Spring, 93-111
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6. Clifford Geertz (1978), `The Bazaar Economy: Information and Search in Peasant Marketing', American Economic Review, 68 (2), May, 28-32
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7. Stanley M. Besen (1986), `Private Copying, Reproduction Costs, and the Supply of Intellectual Property', Information Economics and Policy, 2, 5-22
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PART III MACROREALITIES
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8. Stephen S. Roach (1986), `Macrorealities of the Information Economy', in Ralph Landau and Nathan Rosenberg (eds), The Positive Sum Strategy: Harnessing Technology for Economic Growth, Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 93-103
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9. Reiner Staglin (1989), `Toward an Input-Output Subsystem for the Information Sector', in Ronald E. Miller, Karen R. Polenske and Adam Z. Rose (eds), Frontiers of Input-Output Analysis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 65-78
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10. Robert M. Townsend (1989), `Currency and Credit in a Private Information Economy', Journal of Political Economy, 97 (6), 1323-44
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11. Margaret Bray (1985), `Rational Expectations, Information and Asset Markets: An Introduction', Oxford Economic Papers, 37, 161-95
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PART IV MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY
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12. Herbert A. Simon (1971), `Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World', in Martin Greenberger (ed.), Computers, Communications, and the Public Interest, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 37-52
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13. Gunnar Eliasson (1990), `The Firm as a Competent Team', Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 13 (3), 275-98
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14. Kenneth J. Arrow (1962), `Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention', The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity: Economic and Social Factors, National Bureau of Economic Research, Princeton University Press, 609-26
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15. Gerhard Rosegger (1991), `Advances in Information Technology and the Innovation Strategies of Firms', Prometheus, 9 (1), June, 5-20
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PART V INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS
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16. Beth Krevitt Eres (1989), `International Information Issues', Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 24, 3-32
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17. Lawrence S. Welch (1983), `The Technology Transfer Process in Foreign Licensing Arrangements', in Stuart Macdonald, D. McL. Lamberton and Thomas Mandeville (eds), The Trouble with Technology: Explorations in the Process of Technological Change, London: Frances Pinter, 155-68
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18. Stuart Macdonald (1986), `Controlling the Flow of High-Technology Information from the United States to the Soviet Union: A Labour of Sisyphus?', Minerva, XXIV (1), Spring, 39-73
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PART VI INFORMATION POLICY
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19. Donald A. Dunn (1982), `Developing Information Policy', Telecommunications Policy, 6 (1), March, 21-38
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20. Robert R. Alford and Edgar L. Feige (1989), `Information Distortions in Social Systems: The Underground Economy and Other Observer-Subject-Policymaker Feedbacks', in Edgar L. Feige (ed.), The Underground Economies: Tax Evasion and Information Distortion, New York: Cambridge University Press, 57-79 and references
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21. Aubrey Silberston (1967), `The Patent System', Lloyds Bank Review, 84, January, 32-44
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22. Patricia Glass Schuman (1982), `Information Justice', Library Journal, 107 (11), 1 June, 1060-66
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PART VII SELECTED CLASSICS
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23. Kenneth E. Boulding (1966), `The Economics of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Economics', American Economic Review, LVI (2), May, 1-13
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24. Jacob Marschak (1968), `Economics of Inquiring, Communicating, Deciding', American Economic Review, LVIII (2), May, 1-18
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25. Friedrich August von Hayek (1975), `The Pretence of Knowledge', Swedish Journal of Economics, 77 (4), 433-42
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PART VIII NEW DIRECTIONS
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26. Kenneth J. Arrow (1985), `Informational Structure of the Firm', American Economic Review, 75 (2), May, 303-7
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27. T.A. Marschak (1980), `The Best Use of "Information Budgets" in Purposive Organizations: A Finite Approach', International Journal of Policy Analysis and Information Systems, 4 (1), March, 37-46
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28. Paul Milgrom and John Roberts (1990), 'The Economics of Modern Manufacturing: Technology, Strategy, and Organization', American Economic Review, LXXX (3), June, 511-28
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29. Eliakim Katz and Adrian Ziderman (1990), `Investment in General Training: The Role of Information and Labour Mobility', Economic Journal, 100, December, 1147-58
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30. Nathaniel H. Leff (1984), `Externalities, Information Costs, and Social Benefit-Cost Analysis for Economic Development: An Example from Telecommunications', Economic Development and Cultural Change, 32 (2), January, 255-76
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31. Jacob Marschak (1965), `Economics of Language', Behavioral Science, 10 (2), April, 135-40; reprinted in 1974 in Economic Information, Decision and Prediction: Selected Essays, Volume II, Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 183-92
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PART IX BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Name Index
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