The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information - Richard A. Lanham - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226468822 - April 1, 2006
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The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information


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Traces our epochal move from an economy of things and objects to an economy of attention. According to the author, 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. He aims to map the frontier that information technologies have created.


316 pages, 27 halftones, 4 diagrams

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released April 1, 2006
ISBN13 9780226468822
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 326
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   680 g

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