Don Lamberton was one of the first scholars to recognise the need
for information to be taken seriously, he has spent much of his
career persuading others. Focusing on his contribution, this volume
explores the struggle for recognition of a way of thinking which is
fundamental to our understanding of the social and economic role of
information.
Each of the thirty authors, prominent in information economics
and related fields have written a contribution especially for this
volume. Vital issues, central to Lamberton's concerns and often
ignored in euphoric approaches to information - the plight of the
information poor, the poverty of information policy, the future of
universal service, quality of employment, organisational and market
failure to effect information transactions, the role of information
in economic development, problems of codifying, classifying and
managing information, the limitations of information systems - are
emphasised throughout.
The whole encapsulates the vast progress which has been made,
not just in academic thinking about information, but in the part
this thinking now plays in corporate strategy and government
policy. The volume is both an affectionate account of Don
Lamberton's contribution to the understanding of information, and
also the most comprehensive and authoritative of collections on the
social and economic significance of information.
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