The Economics of the Digital Society

This important new book presents a unique body of research into the economics of the digital society. It questions how modern economies have been transformed as a result of digital goods and markets, and explores the policy implications and challenges of this revolution. Luc Soete and Bas ter Weel have assembled leading economists and social scientists to provide an invaluable insight into the influence of the digital society in the core fields of economics. They offer a comprehensive overview of the changes that information and communication technologies (ICTs) have brought about in our analysis and understanding of society, focusing particularly upon welfare economics, networks, the diffusion of new businesses and new forms of entrepreneurship, the auctioning of licences, the much-debated role of intellectual property rights and the emergence of free software in the open-source movement.

ISBN 1843767740   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9781843767749 (What's this?)   Pages 384 Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd   Volumes 001 Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd   Published in Cheltenham Format Hardback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 25 Nov 2005   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress HM851.E26   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate DEWEY 338.064

1		Introduction and summary by Luc Soete and Bas ter Weel		1
2		World-wide-welfare : a micro-economic analysis of 'the new economy' by P. Jean-Jacques Herings and Maarten Pieter Schinkel		14
3		Network formation, innovation and IT use by Robin Cowan and Nicolas Jonard		44
4		Adoption and diffusion of e-business and the role of network effects by Huub Meijers		64
5		Radio spectrum fees as determinants of market structure : the consequences of European 3G licensing by Harald Gruber		89
6		Does the new economy need all the old IPR institutions and still more? by Paul A. David		113
7		Free software developers : who, how and why by Rishab A. Ghosh and Rudiger Glott and Bernhard Krieger and Gregorio Robles		152
8		Technological change, job stress and burnout by Bas Straathof and Rifka Weehuizen		184
9		Some economics of digital content by Wilfred Dolfsma		200
10		How computerization has changed the labour market : a review of the evidence and a new perspective by Lex Borghans and Bas ter Weel		219
11		ICT and optimal unemployment benefits when Pissarides meets Dixit-Stiglitz by Thomas Ziesemer		248
12		Unleashing animal spirits : investment in ICT and economic growth by Eric J. Bartelsmand and Jeroen Hinloopen		272
13		The impact of ICT investment on knowledge accumulation and economic growth by Adriaan van Zon and Joan Muysken		305
14		A digital society for us all : 'old' and 'new' policy reflections by Chris Freeman and Luc Soete		330

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