Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Dennis McGinn
  • Laying the Groundwork
  • An Introduction to the Information Economy
  • Information Technology and the Information Economy: A Techno-Economic Paradigm
  • Innovation and a Techno-Economic Paradigm
  • A New Economy
  • Free Trade, Globalization, and Information Technology in the New Economy
  • A Closer Look at Information Technology and the Information Age
  • What Is Information Technology?
  • Corporate Creators of Information Technology
  • Comments on Economic Repercussions
  • An Industry Description
  • Aggregate Industry Sectors
  • Productivity and Production Theory
  • Does Labor Productivity Explain Everything?: A Closer Look at Total Factor Productivity
  • Technological Change (Embodied and Disembodied Approaches)
  • Econometric Measurement of Technological Change
  • The Production Function
  • Some Past Concerns Regarding U.S. Productivity
  • Applications in Productivity Analysis
  • Why Productivity Now?
  • Pertinent Questions in Analyzing Information Technology
  • Difficulties in Estimating Productivity
  • Addressing the Difficulties
  • Comments on Profitability
  • A Closing Note on the Empirical Analysis
  • Empirical Studies on Productivity and Information Technology Investment at the Firm Level
  • Three Benchmark Studies of the Past
  • A More Recent Firm-Level Analysis
  • Comparing Empirical Results
  • A Brief Word on Production Functions and Factor Substitution
  • Theoretical Background of and Empirical Work Regarding Information Technology and Corporate Profits.