Description
-Robin Mansell, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
The Internet is connecting an increasing number of individuals, organizations, and devices into global networks of information flows. It is accelerating the dynamics of innovation in the digital economy, affecting the nature and intensity of competition, and enabling private companies, government, and the non-profit sector to develop new business models. In this new ecosystem many of the theoretical assumptions and historical observations upon which economics rests are altered and need critical reassessment.
This Handbook brings together twenty-six original chapters that discuss theoretical and applied frameworks for the study of the economics of the Internet, encompassing:
- its unique economics as a global information and communications infrastructure
- the effects of the Internet on economic transactions, including social production, advertising, innovation, and intellectual property rights
- the economics and management of Internet-based industries, such as search, news, entertainment, culture, and virtual worlds
- the effects of the Internet on the economy at large
Interdisciplinary in its approach, the Handbook synthesizes the state of knowledge and offers new perspectives for researchers, practitioners, and students.
Contributors: S. Aggarwal, C. Antonelli, H. Asghari, J.M. Bauer, S. Bauer, Y. Benkler, S.M. Besen, I. Brown, E. Castronova, D.D. Clark, C. Corrado, C. Feijoo, D.L. Garcia, J.-L. Gomez-Barroso, C. Handke, J. Haucap, K. Hollnbuchner, N. Just, G. Knieps, I. Knowles, J.J. Kranz, L. Kung, M. Latzer, W.H. Lehr, Y.-L. Liu, W. Ma, P. Mazepa, V. Mosco, N. Newman, E.M. Noam, P.P. Patrucco, R.G. Picard, A. Picot, G. Sadowsky, F. Saurwein, V. Schneider, S.J. Schultze, R. Sherman, P. Stepan, T. Stuhmeier, R. Towse, B. Van Ark, M. Van Eeten, B. Van Schewick, H.R. Varian, D. Waterman, R.S. Whitt, S.S. Wildman, S. Wunsch-Vincent
About the Author
Edited by Johannes M. Bauer, Michigan State University, US and Michael Latzer, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Reviews
'The Internet has transformed many fundamental economic facts of life and business, but it is challenging to catalogue them all. This topic deserves a comprehensive handbook, and the editors delivered. The chapters are engaging and lucid, and cover a wide range of topics. The editors were not shy about spanning boundaries between technical detail, economic analysis, and policy relevance. This is a great resource for any modern scholar of the Internet.'
--Shane Greenstein, Harvard Business School
'The Handbook provides an outstanding insight on understanding all kinds of businesses carrying over the information super-highway called the Internet.'
--Science and Public Policy
'This handbook has the laudable aim of providing an original map of research in the Internet Economics field. It succeeds in this thanks to the editors' inclusion of theoretical perspectives ranging from the mainstream to institutional and evolutionary economic theory, complex adaptive systems theory, and critical political economy. . . Readers will gain insight into the limitations of the questions that are asked within different economic traditions, but importantly, also into what can be revealed by these theories and empirical methods. Media and communication scholars, not just those with an interest in media economics, will come away from engagement with this handbook with a good understanding of the assumptions underpinning the contributions economists are making to contemporary debate about the consequences of the continuous evolution of digitally mediated markets.'
--European Journal of Communication
Book Information
ISBN 9781788116770
Author Johannes M. Bauer
Format Paperback
Page Count 608
Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
