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Information and Communication in Economics Robert E. Babe

Information and Communication in Economics By Robert E. Babe

Information and Communication in Economics by Robert E. Babe


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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.

Information and Communication in Economics Summary

Information and Communication in Economics by Robert E. Babe

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.

Table of Contents

Preface; R.E. Babe. 1. The Information Economy Revisited; D.McL. Lamberton. Commentary; G. Paquet. 2. The Place of Information in Economics; R.E. Babe. 3. Commodities as Sign Systems; I. Parker. Commentary; S. Braman. 4. The Political Economy of Communication; V. Mosco. 5. Economic Theory: Rhetoric, Rationalization; W. Adams, J. Brock. Commentary; H.I. Schiller. 6. The Political Economy of Communication Research; W. Buxton. 7. All the Editorials fit to Print; E.S. Herman. Commentary; G. Robinson. Reply: `Reburial' of Ideology? E.S. Herman. 8. The Information Economy in a Spatial Context: City States in a Global Village; M. Hepworth. 9. The Emerging Mass Media Environment; B. Litman, S. Sochay. Commentary; G. Paquet. Commentary; N. Garnham. 10. Application of Neoclassical Economics to African Development: a Curse in Disguise; B.Z. Dasah. 11. Communication, Information and Transnational Enterprise; J. Hills. 12. Communications and Economics; J.W. Carey. Index.

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NPB9780792393580
9780792393580
0792393589
Information and Communication in Economics by Robert E. Babe
New
Hardback
Springer
19931130
347
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