Data, information and knowledge: Have we got it right?

Journal of Evolutionary Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 43-67

  Boisot, Max ^a,b   Canals, Agustí ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c ESADE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^d NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Economics of information; Information; Information theory; Knowledge; Physics of information

Indexed keywords

EID: 0742323839     PISSN: 09369937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00191-003-0181-9     Document Type: Review

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