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The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information
The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information

Navigating the economy of human attention.

Whether you're a data-savvy economist or a creative at heart, "The Economics of Attention" offers deep insight into how value is crafted and traded in our modern, information-saturated world. Lanham's sharp analysis interweaves economics with the humanities, suggesting that understanding style is as essential as grasping substance when navigating the overwhelming waves of digital information. This book might change not just how you look at information, but also how you prioritize every click and glance in the digital age.

  • Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction (2007)
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ISBN: 9780226468822
Authors: Richard A. Lanham
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date of Publication: 2006-04-21
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Economics, Creative Nonfiction, Business
Related Topics: Communication, Leadership, Productivity, Management
Goodreads rating: 3.54
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If economics is about the allocation of resources, then what is the most precious resource in our new information economy? Certainly not information, for we are drowning in it. No, what we are short of is the attention to make sense of that information. With all the verve and erudition that have established his earlier books as classics, Richard A. Lanham here traces our epochal move from an economy of things and objects to an economy of attention. According to Lanham, the central commodity in our new age of information is not stuff but style, for style is what competes for our attention amidst the din and deluge of new media. In such a world, intellectual property will become more central to the economy than real property, while the arts and letters will grow to be more crucial than engineering, the physical sciences, and indeed economics as conventionally practiced. For Lanham, the arts and letters are the disciplines that study how human attention is allocated and how cultural capital is created and traded. In an economy of attention, style and substance change places. The new attention economy, therefore, will anoint a new set of moguls in the business world—not the CEOs or fund managers of yesteryear, but new masters of attention with a grounding in the humanities and liberal arts. Lanham’s The Electronic Word was one of the earliest and most influential books on new electronic culture. The
 

Navigating the economy of human attention.

Whether you're a data-savvy economist or a creative at heart, "The Economics of Attention" offers deep insight into how value is crafted and traded in our modern, information-saturated world. Lanham's sharp analysis interweaves economics with the humanities, suggesting that understanding style is as essential as grasping substance when navigating the overwhelming waves of digital information. This book might change not just how you look at information, but also how you prioritize every click and glance in the digital age.

  • Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction (2007)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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