Economics and information /

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Imprint:Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2001.
Description:220 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4607967
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Other uniform titles:Économie de l'information.
Other authors / contributors:Petit, Pascal.
ISBN:0792375718 (alk. paper)
Notes:"This work is in great part an adaptation in English of a more voluminous book published by La Découverte, Paris, in 1998 under the title: L'économie de l'information"--Acknowledgement.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-216) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • On the authors
  • Acknowledgement
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Information theories
  • Chapter 1. Economics of Information or Economics of Information Systems?
  • Chapter 2. What Economics Borrows from the Statistical Theory of Information
  • Chapter 3. Structure and Role of Information and Beliefs in Game Theory
  • Part 2. Information and market
  • Chapter 4. Information and Prices
  • Chapter 5. The Self-centred Logic of Financial Markets
  • Chapter 6. Theory of Information: from Bounded Rationality to Interpretative Reason
  • Part 3. Information and organisations
  • Chapter 7. Information, Knowledge and the Evolutionary Theory of the Firm
  • Chapter 8. Information in the Theory of Organization
  • Chapter 9. On the Codifiability of Knowledge : Technical Change and the Structure of Cognitive Activities
  • Part 4. Perspectives and conclusions
  • Chapter 10. The European Policy of Promotion of the Information Society
  • Chapter 11. Screening the Information Economy Through Theories of Information
  • Index