Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy

Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy
ISBN-10
022620684X
ISBN-13
9780226206844
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
497
Language
English
Published
2015-05-08
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Authors
Shane M. Greenstein, Avi Goldfarb, Catherine E. Tucker

Description

There is a small and growing literature that explores the impact of digitization in a variety of contexts, but its economic consequences, surprisingly, remain poorly understood. This volume aims to set the agenda for research in the economics of digitization, with each chapter identifying a promising area of research. Economics of Digitizationidentifies urgent topics with research already underway that warrant further exploration from economists. In addition to the growing importance of digitization itself, digital technologies have some features that suggest that many well-studied economic models may not apply and, indeed, so many aspects of the digital economy throw normal economics in a loop.Economics of Digitization will be one of the first to focus on the economic implications of digitization and to bring together leading scholars in the economics of digitization to explore emerging research.

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