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The Information Economy Revisited

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Information and Communication in Economics

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

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Attempts to characterize our contemporary world have yielded both complex concepts like post-industrial society and the information economy, and attributions of a dominant role to specific change agents, for example, the clock, the telephone and, more recently, information technology (OECD, 1992).

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Lamberton, D.M. (1994). The Information Economy Revisited. In: Babe, R.E. (eds) Information and Communication in Economics. Recent Economic Thought Series, vol 32. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2204-7_1

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