Issues in Economics Today or Theories of the Information Society

Issues in Economics Today

Author: Robert Guell

Robert Guell's Issues in Economics Today, 2e employs a unique format that allows instructors and students the flexibility to choose which issues they wish to cover in their one-semester survey course. The book begins with eight intensive core theory chapters followed by thirty shorter issues chapters that can be easily mixed and matched to create a customized course syllabus. Two additional issues chapters can be found on the book's website. In the preface, the author provides a list of suggested issues to cover in a course with specific themes, such as social policy, international issues, or business. For those instructors who want to "do it themselves," the author has also included a grid that shows which theory chapters need to be mastered before moving on to each issue.Instructors and students alike will appreciate the solid theoretical foundation as well as the intriguing and timely economic issues explored in the book, such as sports, education, and crime.

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Theories of the Information Society

Author: Frank Webster

In this new and thoroughly revised edition the author brings his work right up to date both with new theoretical work and with social and technological changes - such as the rapid growth of the internet and accelerated globalization - and re-assesses the work of key theorists in light of these changes. This book will be essential reading for students of contemporary social theory and anybody interested in social and technological change in the post-war era.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgements
1	Introduction	1
2	The idea of an information society	8
3	The information society as post-industrialism: Daniel Bell	30
4	Information, restructuring and globalisation	59
5	Informational capitalism: Manuel Castells	97
6	Information and advanced capitalism: Herbert Schiller	124
7	Information management and manipulation: Jurgen Habermas and the concept of the public sphere	161
8	Information, reflexivity and surveillance: Anthony Giddens	202
9	Information, postmodernism and postmodernity	227
10	Conclusion: is there an information society?	263
	Bibliography	274
	Index	299