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Information as commodity: measuring the information sector in a new economy

This paper aims to show that the technological evolution and the emerging of new and solid economic activities have required new ways of measuring the sectors of economy related directly to information and, consequently, new forms of defining, at least from the economic point of view, what information products are and what information is.

Information sector; Information as commodity; information digitization; Information products


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