Social Networks and Information Asymmetries: tracking, traceability and democracy in the era of the digital economy

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18617/liinc.v16i1.5195

Abstract

ABSTRACT The aims of this paper are the following ones: on the one hand, I study the new competitive forms that correspond to the development of the different markets linked to electronic platforms and social networks, on the web. On the other hand, I design a social welfare function to capture the positive and negative impacts produced by the development of these markets.

In the first part, I will highlight the main social and economic changes caused by Internet Economy. I will show how the extension of market modified the production and the modalities of appropriating information. In a second part, I will design a social welfare function, and I will demonstrate why such markets dynamics are based on information asymmetries..

Kewords: Information Asymmetries; Network Economics; Welfare; Democracy.

Author Biography

  • Alain Herscovici, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES)
    Doutor em Economia pelas Universidades de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne e de Amiens, Coordenador do Grupo de Estudo em Macroeconomia (GREM)  e do Grupo de Estudo em Economia da Cultura, da Informação, do Conhecimento e da Comunicação (GECICC),  Professor Titular Programa de Pós-Graduação em Economia e do Departamento de Economia da UFES, e bolsista de produtividade CNPq.

Published

30/05/2020

Issue

Section

Political Economy of Information, Communication and Culture

How to Cite

Social Networks and Information Asymmetries: tracking, traceability and democracy in the era of the digital economy. Liinc em Revista, [S. l.], v. 16, n. 1, p. e5195, 2020. DOI: 10.18617/liinc.v16i1.5195. Disponível em: https://revista.ibict.br/liinc/article/view/5195.. Acesso em: 22 jul. 2024.