INF STD 206

Main Course

Introduction to Economics of Information

Description

Seminar, three and one half hours. Introduction to key concepts, scholars, and studies in economics of information. Topics include economic value and measurement of information, information industries and markets, public goods theories of knowledge and information, network externalities, consequences of intellectual property regimes, information and economic development, information work and occupations, information and organizational processes, productivity paradox, and sectoral analyses of national and global information economies. Letter grading.