Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets: The Political Economy of Innovation

by Jonathan D. Aronson and Peter F. Cowhey

Book Overview

Innovation in information and communication technology (ICT) fuels the growth of the global economy. How ICT markets evolve depends on politics and policy, and since the 1950s periodic overhauls of ICT policy have transformed competition and innovation. For example, in the 1980s and the 1990s a revolution in communication policy (the introduction of sweeping competition) also transformed the information market. Today, the diffusion of Internet,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262012855
• ISBN13: 9780262012850
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 341 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher