Computing

by Greenstein, Shane M.

• ISBN13: 9781843764700
• ISBN10: 1843764709
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-11-06
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
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Table of Contents

Introduction : the industrial economics of computing
Econometric estimates of price indexes for personal computers in the 1990s	p. 3
Measuring the spillovers from technical advance : mainframe computers in financial services	p. 29
The welfare analysis of product innovations, with an application to computed tomography scanners	p. 43
Technological competition and the structure of the computer industry	p. 81
Anticompetitive behavior and IBM's actions	p. 121
The computer industry	p. 191
Networks and innovation in a modular system : lessons from the microcomputer and stereo component industries	p. 262
Market segmentation and the sources of rents from innovation : personal computers in the late 1980s	p. 279
Building and delivering the virtual world : commercializing services for Internet access	p. 307
The demand for monitoring technologies : the case of trucking	p. 331
The impact of information technology on emergency health care outcomes	p. 359
The dynamo and the computer : an historical perspective on the modern productivity paradox	p. 393
Technical progress and co-invention in computing and in the uses of computers	p. 400
Contractibility and asset ownership : on-board computers and governance in U.S. trucking	p. 483
Beyond computation : information technology, organizational transformation and business performance	p. 520
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