motives, the roles and the consequences of the Jesuits as agents of information regarding China affected the European … and transmission of information. It finds that economic progress and political consolidation in Europe did result in a …

Early modern naturalists were faced with what has been termedthe ‘first bio-information crisis’. A key figure in … tointegrate new information into that order. A way out of thisdilemma was to keep information on particular subjects onseparate …

After many years of large drops in the cost information and communicationtechnology, the evidence on its impact on … productivity growth in non-IT produc-ing sectors continues to be mixed.We propose a framework to study the impactof information and … organizations depend on the cost of communicating andacquiring information. We …nd that while advances in information technologythat …

information about the quality ofthe provider's expertise, but facilitate good utilization of experts knowledge.In a …rm …, management holds soft information about individuals expertiseand thus improves on the matching of experts to problems; however …) and the quality of matching between problemsand problem solvers (the market provides less information about experts'quality).[...] …

Changes in information and communication technologieshave increased the offshorability of tasks.As routine tasks (Pol …

We examine how information technology (IT) contributes to organizational change,labor demand, and improved productivity …