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Information and Communication in Economics

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Part of the book series: Recent Economic Thought (RETH, volume 32)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. The Information Economy Revisited

    • D. McL. Lamberton
    Pages 1-40
  3. The Place of Information in Economics

    • Robert E. Babe
    Pages 41-67
  4. Commodities as Sign-Systems

    • Ian Parker
    Pages 69-103
  5. Economic Theory: Rhetoric, Reality, Rationalization

    • Walter Adams, James W. Brock
    Pages 125-145
  6. The Political Economy of Communications Research

    • William J. Buxton
    Pages 147-175
  7. The Emerging Mass Media Environment

    • Barry R. Litman, Scott Sochay
    Pages 233-279
  8. Communications and Economics

    • James W. Carey
    Pages 321-336
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 337-347

About this book

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 neoclassical treatment obscures major interrelations between economic and communicatory processes.
Drawing on a range of distinguished scholarship from both the economic and communication studies disciplines, Information and Communication in Economics explores the implications for economic analysis and our understanding of economic processes of employing a more complete conceptualization of information: information as locus of power; information as evolutionary agent; and media systems as devices for control.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Communication, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

    Robert E. Babe

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Information and Communication in Economics

  • Editors: Robert E. Babe

  • Series Title: Recent Economic Thought

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2204-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1994

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-9358-0Published: 30 November 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-4977-1Published: 27 September 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-2204-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-199X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 347

  • Topics: History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Political Science, Social Sciences, general

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