Information Economics

When George Stigler published “The Economics of Information” in this journal a little over 50 years ago (1961), he was justified in his complaints about the absence of research on the topic. Yet, this complaint was soon to become obsolete. Figure 1 reports the incidence of the phrases “information e...

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Published in:The Journal of political economy 2017-12, Vol.125 (6), p.1885-1890
Main Author: Kamenica, Emir
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Information
Macroeconomics
Political economy
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