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Innovation in the Informal Economy
2016the central economic and social role of the informal sector is increasingly appreciated. Yet while evidence shows that informal entrepreneurs can drive innovation, research on innovation in developing countries has been devoted mostly to formal sectors, organizations and institutions.
Jeremy de Beer +2 more
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Primitives for an Information Economy
Journal of Information Technology, 1989There are three really fundamental principles of speaking after dinner. The first is to be humorous, the second is to be brief, I am not going to do that, and the third is not to say anything which might offend your audience. So I thought it would be suitable to start off by introducing you to a tabloid journal that you might not all come across ...
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The Value of Information in Production Economies
Journal of Economic Theory, 2001For decades, economists have conjectured that the value of information may not be necessarily positive in decision making. Moreover, it is known that Blackwell's theorem [\textit{D. Blackwell}, Ann. Math. Stat. 24, 265-272 (1953; Zbl 0050.36004)] which claims that the value of information is always, does not hold in many economic circumstances.
Eckwert, Bernhard, Zilcha, Itzhak
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MODELS IN THE ECONOMY OF INFORMATION
Annual Review in Automatic Programming, 1985Abstract This paper deals with some models considering information as an economic ressource as well as capital goods, raw materials, energy and manpower. This approach is not only possible, but quite necessary, because of the increasing weight of information processes at each level of socio-economic activities.
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The Political Economy of Informal Economies
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1987This article considers the mutual interrelationship between informal economies and the wider political economy of capitalism. Four dimensions are discussed: (1) the generation of informal economies as a paradoxical outcome of distinguishing them from capitalism; (2) the support given by capitalism and reciprocated by informal economies that enables ...
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Analytics of information and empirics of the information economy
The Information Society, 1986This paper reviews some of the salient analytical contributions of micro information economics, or market uncertainty. It contrasts the prolific growth in research in micro information economics with the relative neglect of the study of macro information economics, or technological change.
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Unionization and Informal Economy [PDF]
Economics Bulletin, 2012 In this paper I investigate the relationship between unionization and the size of the informal economy. Using a cross-country panel data for 30 countries over the period from 1960 to 2009, I find a strong and robust negative correlation between unionization and the size of the informal economy.
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Information, Efficiency, and the Core of an Economy
Econometrica, 1978The meaning of exchange efficiency is examined in the context of an economy in which agents differ in their endowments of information. Definitions of efficiency, and of the core, are proposed which emphasize the role of communication. Opportunities for insurance are preserved by restricting communication, or in a market system by restricting insider ...
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2021
Abstract The term “information economy” first came into widespread usage during the 1960s and 1970s to identify a major transformation in the postwar American economy in which manufacturing had been eclipsed by the production and management of information.
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Abstract The term “information economy” first came into widespread usage during the 1960s and 1970s to identify a major transformation in the postwar American economy in which manufacturing had been eclipsed by the production and management of information.
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2003
Abstract As the century closed, the world became smaller. The public rapidly gained access to new and dramatically faster communication technologies. Entrepreneurs, able to draw on unprecedented scale economies, built vast empires. Great fortunes were made.
Carl Shapiro, Hal R Varian
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Abstract As the century closed, the world became smaller. The public rapidly gained access to new and dramatically faster communication technologies. Entrepreneurs, able to draw on unprecedented scale economies, built vast empires. Great fortunes were made.
Carl Shapiro, Hal R Varian
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