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2. Consumer benefit from use of the Internet
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Morton, Fiona Scott (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 2006-08
- Published:
- International: MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D11015
- Notes:
- Chapter in NBER book: Adam B. Jaffe, Josh Lerner and Scott Stern (eds.), Innovation policy and the economy, volume 6, pages 67-90., Author examines sources of consumer surplus that are likely to exist due to the types of sites being used online and points to research that quantifies the consumer gains from use of the Internet. ... Reports that the Internet increases price competition so that consumers pay less for products and improves daily life by increasing the variety, quality and availability of products and information. These gains are particularly useful to people with high transactions costs (busy, rural) and uninformed people. By allowing consumers in rural or sparsely populated areas to share tastes which might be rare in the local population, it particularly benefits consumers who might have more difficulty physically interacting with people of their tastes.
3. Universal access to email: feasibility and societal implications
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Anderson, Robert H. (author), Bikson, Tora K. (author), Law, Sally Ann (author), and Mitchell, Bridger M. (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 2001
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36363
- Notes:
- Pages 243-262 in Benjamin M. Compaine (ed.), The digital divide: facing a crisis or creating a myth? MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 357 pages.