What
is the "Network Society" and what are the connections between
information and communication technologies and the new economic structures?
What are the fundamental differences between the "new" economies
and the traditional market-based and firm-based systems?
Readings:
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh (1998) Cooking pot markets: an economic model
for the trade in free goods and services on the Internet. First Monday, issues
3.3.
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue3_3/ghosh/index.html
Chris Anderson (2004). The Long Tail. Wired Magazine October 2004.
http://web.archive.org/web/20041127085645/http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html
Optional
Readings:
Yochai Benkler (2002). Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm.
112 Yale Law Journal 369
http://www.yale.edu/yalelj/112/BenklerWEB.pdf
Wikibook on Information Society and the New Economy
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Information_Age/Information_Knowledge_and_the_New_Economy