Miller's experience, described in a paper he presented to the Workshop on the Economics of Information Security at Carnegie Mellon last June, highlights a growing problem in computer security.
But it's the conclusion of Venture Economics Information Services, a Newark, New Jersey-based research firm, which calculated the average annual return of more than 300 venture capital firms, based on how the share prices of their portfolio companies performed since going public some time over the past five years.
Ghose, an econometrician by training, studies the economics of information technology.
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The Austrian school of economics notes that information is widely diffuse, making central planning of the economy virtually impossible.
But it's the conclusion of Venture Economics Information Services, a Newark, N.
Instead of focusing on jobs lost to the globalisation of information technology, Catherine Mann of the Institute for International Economics in Washington looks at globalisation's power to reduce prices and so help spread new technology, new practices and job-creating investment through the economy.
"I do not believe (his ideas) would work in large companies, such as in a public limited company for example, " says Ian Angell, Professor of Information Systems at the London School of Economics.
Writing in Slate, Microsoft's online magazine, Mr Myhrvold explains that the main problem with usage-based charging for electronic information is that it is an artificial distortion of the underlying economics.
Finding a lot of sources of information from diverse lines of thought on economics and having a better line of information on the Reagan 1986 tax legislation as it developed than most, peripherial, but almost daily interaction with the bank closings and later the RTC, gave me a whole different view.
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At the Congressional Budget Office, Orszag hired specialists in health-care economics and turned the institution into a clearinghouse of information about rising health-care costs.
Even more so than most areas of economics, people looking for solid information on the euro crisis are far more likely to come across spin than facts.
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To optimize the economics of these disparate elements, the customer must turn information into intelligence.
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Mr. Hazlett is a professor of law and economics at George Mason University, where he directs the Information Economy Project.
Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2001 for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information.
Nouriel Roubini is the cofounder and chairman of Roubini Global Economics, an innovative economic and geo-strategic information service and consultancy.
The next two faculties to be put in place will be information technology, and management and economics which will help develop job opportunities "to enable Bihar to catch up with the rest of India", said Prof Sen.
Law and economics teaches that insider trading causes no important harm and, by transmitting the inside information to the market, brings an important benefit: more accurate share prices.
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Today Ashesi, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, offers degrees in business, information systems and computer science, with plans to offer engineering and economics majors in the near future.
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