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Information and Communication in Economics

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  • © 1994

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Editors:
  1. Robert E. Babe

    1. Department of Communication, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

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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
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  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. The Political Economy of Communication: Lessons from the Founders

    • Vincent Mosco
    Pages 105-123

  6. Economic Theory: Rhetoric, Reality, Rationalization

    • Walter Adams, James W. Brock
    Pages 125-145

  7. The Political Economy of Communications Research

    • William J. Buxton
    Pages 147-175

  8. All the Editorials Fit to Print: The Politics of “Newsworthiness”

    • Edward S. Herman
    Pages 177-209

  9. The Information Economy in a Spatial Context: City-States in a Global Village

    • Mark Hepworth
    Pages 211-231

  10. The Emerging Mass Media Environment

    • Barry R. Litman, Scott Sochay
    Pages 233-279

  11. Application of Neoclassical Economics to African Development: A Curse in Disguise

    • Bernard Z. Dasah
    Pages 281-292

  12. Communication, Information, and Transnational Enterprise

    • Jill Hills
    Pages 293-320

  13. Communications and Economics

    • James W. Carey
    Pages 321-336

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 337-347
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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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