The Economics of Network Industries PDF Download Ebook. Oz Shy introduces upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers to the latest developments in networks, the fastest-growing components in most industries. Network industries include the Internet, e-mail, telephony, computer hardware and software, music and video players, and service operations in the banking, legal, and airlines industries among many others.
Networks are fastest-growing components in most industries. Network industries include the Internet, e-mail, telephony, computer hardware and software, music and video players, and service operations in businesses overseas, banking, law, and airlines. This text offers simple presentation of what economists have accomplished in the field of network goods.
The array of topics covered is impressive: it ranges for the hardware and software industries to bank- and money-related issues. This is a major book devoted to a major topic. It should be read those students, scholars or decision/policy makers who want to understand something about this new (although sometimes quite old) domain of human activity and academic research.
The book conveys the essential features of how strategic interactions between firms are affected by network activity, as well as covering social interaction and its influence on consumers' choices of products and services. It consists of a vivid presentation of what a network industry is and the best single source for anyone wanting to get acquainted with the state of the art in this field today.
Author has succeeded in simplifying the arguments that economists have been feverishly debating in academic journals in the fields of network industries from telephony to the Internet of considerable interest to researchers, industry professionals regulators and policymakers seeking a clear and concise explanation of the economics of high technology network industries as well as anyone interested in the Internet browser wars, implications of electronic libraries and publishing or the activities of omnipresent media communications moguls such as Bill Gates or Rupert Murdoch.
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