Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy Saturday, August 1 2009.

• In a marketplace that depends so thoroughly on cutting-edge information technology, can classic economic principles still offer any real strategic value? Yes! say Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian. In Information Rules, they reveal that many conventional economic concepts can provide the insight and understanding necessary to succeed in the information age. Shapiro and Varian argue that if managers seriously want to develop effective strategies for competing in the new economy, they must understand the fundamental economics of information technology. Whether information takes the form of software code or recorded music, is published in a book or magazine, or even posted on a website, managers must know how to evaluate the consequences of pricing, protecting, and planning new versions of information products, services, and systems. The first book to distill the economics of information and networks into practical business strategies, Information Rules is a guide to the winning moves that can help business leaders-from writers, lawyers, and finance professionals to executives in the entertainment, publishing, and hardware and software industries--navigate successfully through the information economy.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy Friday, July 24 2009.

• Added a contributor: Hal R. Varian: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: Carl Shapiro: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy Friday, July 17 2009.

• As the century closed, the world became smaller.