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Naturally, it is only when things present us with problems that we study them. Science—as we understand it today—did not emerge until the 15th century; economics did not appear until the 18th century; and the study of information, semiotics, has really only started to appear in the latter half of this century.
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Doswell, A. (1985). Information, Decisions, Products, and Processes. In: Foundations of Business Information Systems. Approaches to Information Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2395-2_4
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