Despite much discussion in recent years, there are many understandings of information economy. No dominant analytical framework has emerged on how to participate in this economy. To secure full benefits of the information economy a country needs to formulate appropriate strategies and plans based upon the analysis of currently available information, data and statistics. For a developing country…
Are information sectors sufficiently different from other sectors of the economy such that more stringent antitrust standards should be applied to them preemptively? Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu responds in the affirmative in his book The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires. Wu proposes preventing vertical mergers in the information economy and the mandatory divestit…