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The Prometheus school of information economics

This paper reviews 20 years of information economics in Prometheus. It finds broad coherence about the theme of information as knowledge‐capital, as distinct from information as a message in a market‐space. The paper suggests that micro‐foundations for the Prometheus school of information economics should be based in evolutionary micro‐economic theory rather than in neoclassical micro‐economic theory.

Pluto Journals

Jason Potts

Prometheus

2004

Title: The Prometheus school of information economics

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This paper reviews 20 years of information economics in Prometheus.

It finds broad coherence about the theme of information as knowledge‐capital, as distinct from information as a message in a market‐space.

The paper suggests that micro‐foundations for the Prometheus school of information economics should be based in evolutionary micro‐economic theory rather than in neoclassical micro‐economic theory.

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