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The Economics of Information Security
Science, 2006The economics of information security has recently become a thriving and fast-moving discipline. As distributed systems are assembled from machines belonging to principals with divergent interests, we find that incentives are becoming as important as technical design in achieving dependability.
Ross, Anderson, Tyler, Moore
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On the economics of information
Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1972AbstractOn November 11, 1971, the Special Interest Group of the American Society for Information Science on Behavioral and Social Sciences held a panel discussion a t the annual meeting in Denver. The audience found the ideas generated of sufficient importance to request that the highlights be published and disseminated to policy makers and other key ...
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Information, Economics, and Evolution
Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 1986Cet article examine la proposition selon laquelle l'evolution est le resultat de l'interaction entre les entites biologiques impliquees dans les 2 grandes classes de processus biologiques ― les transferts de matiere et d'energie et le maintien ― la transmission et la modification de l'information ...
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The Economics of Information Security Investment
ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, 2002This article presents an economic model that determines the optimal amount to invest to protect a given set of information. The model takes into account the vulnerability of the information to a security breach and the potential loss should such a breach occur.
Lawrence A. Gordon, Martin P. Loeb
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The economic nature of information
The Information Society, 1981Abstract In 1962, economist Fritz Machlup predicted that by the year 2000 more people would be employed to manipulate information than matter or energy. Marc Porat calculated in 1977 that the primary task of 46 percent of the U.S. workforce was to manipulate information. In America and much of the rest of the world, information is a major consumer good
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Economics of Information or Economics of Information Systems ?
2001Information can not be destroyed by use, it grows when shared and it expands when used. So Information offers few interesting features for the “normal mainstream” (T.S. Kuhn) or even the “enlarged-normal mainstream” (O. Favereau) Economics. The emergence of an “economics of information” (in the 1940’s) needed semantic shifts for information to amount ...
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AIP Conference Proceedings, 2000
The economics of information covers a wide range of topics such as insurance, stochastic equilibria, the theory of finance (e.g. option pricing), job search, etc. In this paper, we focus on an economic model in which traders are uncertain about the true characteristics of commodities and know only the probability distributions of those characteristics.
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The economics of information covers a wide range of topics such as insurance, stochastic equilibria, the theory of finance (e.g. option pricing), job search, etc. In this paper, we focus on an economic model in which traders are uncertain about the true characteristics of commodities and know only the probability distributions of those characteristics.
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1981
Memorial Resolution for Professor Robert D. Leiter.- 1. Information and Product Differentiation.- Notes and References.- Comments on "Information and Product Differentiation".- 2. Consumer Information and Advertising.- Appendixes, Notes, and References.- Comments on "Consumer Information and Advertising".- 3. Search, Information, and Market Structure.-
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Memorial Resolution for Professor Robert D. Leiter.- 1. Information and Product Differentiation.- Notes and References.- Comments on "Information and Product Differentiation".- 2. Consumer Information and Advertising.- Appendixes, Notes, and References.- Comments on "Consumer Information and Advertising".- 3. Search, Information, and Market Structure.-
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2001
On the authors. Acknowledgement. Introduction. Part One: Information theories. 1. Economics of Information or Economics of Information Systems? J.-L. Le Moigne. 2. What Economics Borrows from the Statistical Theory of Information P. Garrouste. 3. Structure and Role of Information and Beliefs in Game Theory B. Walliser. Part Two: Information and market.
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On the authors. Acknowledgement. Introduction. Part One: Information theories. 1. Economics of Information or Economics of Information Systems? J.-L. Le Moigne. 2. What Economics Borrows from the Statistical Theory of Information P. Garrouste. 3. Structure and Role of Information and Beliefs in Game Theory B. Walliser. Part Two: Information and market.
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Journal of Library Administration, 1999
The author gives an overview of the economics of information including the high rate of return on information in the United States, the value of university research in the United States, and the public good model of information. He explains the economics of research journal publishing, in print and electronic format.
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The author gives an overview of the economics of information including the high rate of return on information in the United States, the value of university research in the United States, and the public good model of information. He explains the economics of research journal publishing, in print and electronic format.
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