Next: DiscoveryInvention and
Informational Society Notes
by
Alfred Lorn Norman
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Copyright: Alfred Lorn Norman, 1994, Copyright pending 1999, All rights reserved
These notes provide a summary of the
material covered in ECO361N: Informational Society. In the internet version of
the notes you will go surfing for information rather than read Xeroxed media
articles. These notes are now updated on a weekly basis as the underlying
technology and procedures are changing at such a rapid rate.
Revised 11 Jan 90 - Editor: Joanna Ostrom, grader Fall 89. Revised May 92,
Jul 93, Nov 93, Aug 94, May-Jun 95 - Editor: Alfred Norman. In July 1995, Mark
Schleuter, a grader, supplied two paragraphs on EDI. Revised again Christmas
break 1998-99. Latest revision: Dec 05 - Jan 06 Notes are revised each class.
- Technological Foundation of the Modern Economy
- Discovery, Invention and Innovation
- Advanced material on Discovery, Invention, and Innovation
- Introduction
- Discovery and Invention
- Bounded Rational Innovation
- Why the rate of invention exceeds the rate of innovation
- Recommendations
- References
- Need for a Paradigm for Innovation
- Binary Numbers
- Microelectronics
- Hardware, Software and Impact
- Communication
- Procedural Economics
- Production
- Consumption
- Economic System
- Government
- Community
- Information Policy Oveview
- Information Policy
- Government
- Advanced Government
- The problem of desirable governmental acts
- The problem of governmental innovation through decentralization
- Introduction
- Ideal Governmental Decentralization
- Federal Role in Decentralization
- State Government: Organization
- State Government: Role
- State Innovation Strategy
- Metropolitan Government
- Town Government
- Individual
- Evaluation
- Notes and References
- A candidate: Medical decentralization
Latest Revision: 16 Jan 06