How much is information worth? Willingness to pay for expert and non-expert informational goods compared to material goods in lay economic thinking

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 315-325

  Sakalaki, Maria ^a   Kazi, Smaragda ^a  

^a PANTEION UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Heuristics; Immaterial goods; Information; Involvement; Lay economic thinking; Material goods; Paradoxes of information; Uncertainty; Valuation

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; STUDENTS; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

ECONOMIC THINKING; IMMATERIAL GOODS; MATERIAL GOODS; PARADOXES OF INFORMATION;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 34248218611     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551506070709     Document Type: Article

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