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Estes, Ralph - The MIT Press

original entries have been revised, and comprehensive coverage is provided for financial accounting, management accounting …, taxation, auditing, social accounting, information systems, computers, financial analysis, reporting standards, and statistical … methods. Among the new terms are accelerated cost recovery system (ACRS), "carve-out" accounting, debt defeasance, deep …

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Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology Is Reshaping the Economy

Brynjolfsson, Erik - The MIT Press

A wave of business innovation is driving the productivity resurgence in the U.S. economy. In Wired for Innovation, Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders describe how information technology directly or indirectly created this productivity explosion, reversing decades of slow growth. They argue that...

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Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology Is Reshaping the Economy

Brynjolfsson, Erik - The MIT Press

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The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development

Lerner, Josh - The MIT Press

Discussions of the economic impact of open source software often generate more heat than light. Advocates passionately assert the benefits of open source while critics decry its effects. Missing from the debate is rigorous economic analysis and systematic economic evidence of the impact of open...

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The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development

Lerner, Josh - The MIT Press

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Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets: The Political Economy of Innovation

Cowhey, Peter F.; Aronson, Jonathan D. - The MIT Press

Innovation in information and communication technology (ICT) fuels the growth of the global economy. How ICT markets evolve depends on politics and policy, and since the 1950s periodic overhauls of ICT policy have transformed competition and innovation. For example, in the 1980s and the 1990s a...

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Information and the Modern Corporation

Cortada, James W. - The MIT Press

While we have been preoccupied with the latest i-gadget from Apple and with Google's ongoing expansion, we may have missed something: the fundamental transformation of whole firms and industries into giant information-processing machines. Today, more than eighty percent of workers collect and...

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Gurus and Oracles: The Marketing of Information

Sarvary, Miklos - The MIT Press

We live in an “Information Age” of overabundant data and lightning-fast transmission. Yet although information and knowledge represent key factors in most economic decisions, we often forget that data, information, and knowledge are products created and traded within the knowledge economy....

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Productivity, Volume 3: Information Technology and the American Growth Resurgence

Jorgenson, Dale W.; Ho, Mun S.; Stiroh, Kevin J. - The MIT Press

The American economy has experienced renewed growth since 1995, with this surge rooted in the development and deployment of information technology (IT). This book traces the American growth resurgence to its sources within individual industries, documents the critical role of IT, and shows how...

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Understanding the Digital Economy: Data, Tools, and Research

Brynjolfsson, Erik (contributor); Kahin, Brian (contributor) - The MIT Press

The rapid growth of electronic commerce, along with changes in information, computing, and communications, is having a profound effect on the United States economy. President Clinton recently directed the National Economic Council, in consultation with executive branch agencies, to analyze the...

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