The Information Economy

Hal R. Varian

1/01/2005
(Original Publish Date: 1995)

Advances in computers and data networks inspire visions of a future "information economy" in which everyone will have access to gigabytes of all kinds of information anywhere and anytime. But information has always been a notoriously difficult commodity to deal with, and, in some ways, computers and high-speed networks make the problems of buying, selling, and distributing information goods worse rather than better.