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• catalog abstract "Many governments are pursuing with relentless vigor a neoconservative/transnational corporate program of globalization, privatization, deregulation, cutbacks to social programs, and downsizing of the public sector. Countries are forming into giant "free trade" blocs. Increasingly they lack the will and desire to resist encroachments of world "superculture." Furthermore, they encourage heightened commoditization of information and knowledge, for instance through stiffer intellectual property laws, through "Information Highway" initiatives, and through provisions in bilateral and multilateral trade treaties. The analytical underpinning and ideological justification for this neoconservative/transnational corporate policy agenda is mainstream (neoclassical) economics. Focusing on the centrality of information/communication to economic and ecological processes, Communication and the Transformation of Economics cuts at the philosophical/ideological root of this neo-conservative policy agenda. Mainstream economics assumes a commodity status for information, even though information is indivisible, subjective, shared, and intangible. Information, in other words, is quite ill-suited to commodity treatment. Likewise, neoclassicism posits communication as comprising merely acts of commodity exchange, thereby ignoring gift relations; dialogic interactions; the cumulative, transformative properties of all informational interchange; and the social or community context within which communicative action takes place. Continuing in the tradition of writers such as Russel Wallace, Thorstein Veblen, Karl Polyani, E.F. Schumacher, Kenneth E. Boulding, and Herman Daly, Robert Babe proposes infusing mainstream economics with realistic and expansive conceptions of information/communication in order to better comprehend twenty-first-century issues and progress toward a more sustainable, more just, and more democratic economic/communicatory order.".
• catalog contributor b9733656.
• catalog created "1995.".
• catalog date "1995".
• catalog date "1995.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
• catalog description "1. Information Industries and Economic Analysis: Policy-Makers Beware -- 2. Commodities as Signs -- 3. The Place of Information in Economics -- 4. Communication: Blindspot of Western Economics -- 5. On Political Economy -- 6. Information, Economics, and Ecosystem -- 7. T.R. Malthus and the Origins of Communication in Economics -- 8. The Communication Theory of Thorstein Veblen -- 9. The Communication Theory of Kenneth E. Boulding -- 10. Emergence and Development of Canadian Communications: Dispelling the Myths -- 11. Telecommunications Policy: Real World of the Canadian Information Highway -- 12. "Life Is Information": Canadian Communication and the Legacy of Graham Spry.".
• catalog description "Continuing in the tradition of writers such as Russel Wallace, Thorstein Veblen, Karl Polyani, E.F. Schumacher, Kenneth E. Boulding, and Herman Daly, Robert Babe proposes infusing mainstream economics with realistic and expansive conceptions of information/communication in order to better comprehend twenty-first-century issues and progress toward a more sustainable, more just, and more democratic economic/communicatory order.".
• catalog description "Focusing on the centrality of information/communication to economic and ecological processes, Communication and the Transformation of Economics cuts at the philosophical/ideological root of this neo-conservative policy agenda. Mainstream economics assumes a commodity status for information, even though information is indivisible, subjective, shared, and intangible. Information, in other words, is quite ill-suited to commodity treatment. Likewise, neoclassicism posits communication as comprising merely acts of commodity exchange, thereby ignoring gift relations; dialogic interactions; the cumulative, transformative properties of all informational interchange; and the social or community context within which communicative action takes place.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-253) and index.".
• catalog description "Many governments are pursuing with relentless vigor a neoconservative/transnational corporate program of globalization, privatization, deregulation, cutbacks to social programs, and downsizing of the public sector. Countries are forming into giant "free trade" blocs. Increasingly they lack the will and desire to resist encroachments of world "superculture." Furthermore, they encourage heightened commoditization of information and knowledge, for instance through stiffer intellectual property laws, through "Information Highway" initiatives, and through provisions in bilateral and multilateral trade treaties. The analytical underpinning and ideological justification for this neoconservative/transnational corporate policy agenda is mainstream (neoclassical) economics.".
• catalog extent "xii, 270 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0813326710 (pbk.)".
• catalog identifier "0813326729 (hardcover : acid free paper)".
• catalog isPartOf "Critical studies in communication and in the cultural industries".
• catalog issued "1995".
• catalog issued "1995.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press,".
• catalog subject "384 20".
• catalog subject "HB133 .B3 1995".
• catalog subject "Information theory in economics.".
• catalog subject "Telecommunication policy.".
• catalog subject "Telecommunication.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Information Industries and Economic Analysis: Policy-Makers Beware -- 2. Commodities as Signs -- 3. The Place of Information in Economics -- 4. Communication: Blindspot of Western Economics -- 5. On Political Economy -- 6. Information, Economics, and Ecosystem -- 7. T.R. Malthus and the Origins of Communication in Economics -- 8. The Communication Theory of Thorstein Veblen -- 9. The Communication Theory of Kenneth E. Boulding -- 10. Emergence and Development of Canadian Communications: Dispelling the Myths -- 11. Telecommunications Policy: Real World of the Canadian Information Highway -- 12. "Life Is Information": Canadian Communication and the Legacy of Graham Spry.".
• catalog title "Communication and the transformation of economics : essays in information, public policy, and political economy / Robert E. Babe.".
• catalog type "text".