The Economics of Attention - Style and Substance in the Age of Information

Informationen zum Autor Richard A. Lanham is professor emeritus of English at the University of California! Los Angeles! and president of Rhetorica! Inc.! a consulting and editorial services company. He is the author of numerous books! including The Electronic Word: Democracy! Technology! and the Arts! also published by the University of Chicago Press. Klappentext If economics is about the allocation of resources! then what is the most precious resource in our information economy? Certainly not information! for we are drowning in it. No! what we are short of is the attention to make sense of that information. This title traces our move from an economy of things and objects to an economy of attention. Zusammenfassung If economics is about the allocation of resources! then what is the most precious resource in our information economy? Certainly not information! for we are drowning in it. No! what we are short of is the attention to make sense of that information. This title traces our move from an economy of things and objects to an economy of attention.

Product details

• Authors: Richard A. Lanham, Lanham Richard A.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.12.2007
• EAN: 9780226468679
• ISBN: 978-0-226-46867-9
• No. of pages: 326
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business; Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, COMPUTERS / Information Theory, Ethical & social aspects of IT, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects