economics

Platform Economics talk
09 Feb 2021

Video: Platform Economics: Possible Futures with Robin Mansell, London School of Economics and Political Science and W. Edward Steinmueller, University of Sussex

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Platform companies such as Google, Facebook and Amazon are the giants of the post-industrial age. They are replacing the physical artefacts of media, transforming business models and challenging bricks and mortar retail establishments. These large-scale changes have negative as well as positive consequences and they are creating challenges for policy makers. The new ordering of markets is likely a first step in the use of data these companies are accumulating about preferences, social interconnections, and behaviours. Speaking to these themes in their new book Advanced Introduction to Platform Economics(Edward Elgar, 2020), Prof. Mansell and Prof. Steinmueller will be discussing how different economic lenses defend […]
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26 Mar 2017

A Whole New Class of Faculty at the Quello Center

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One major outcome of the new faculty joining the Department of Media and Information this academic year that been a coming together of a critical mass of very strong faculty key to social scientific research on the digital age. Suddenly, the Quello Center can enjoy a dramatic rise in the strength of faculty that can inform research, policy, and practice central to the Center’s focus on policy for the digital age. To ensure that these faculty are visible and recognized from afar, the Center has begun a new category of faculty, entitled Quello Research Fellows. The first four Fellows include […]
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08 May 2016

Quello’s Aleks Yankelevich invited as an Adjunct Professor in MSU’s Department of Economics

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The Quello Center’s Assistant Research Professor, Aleks Yankelevich, has been appointed to an Adjunct Professor position by the Department of Economics at MSU. As the Chair of the Department of Economics, Professor Tim Vogelsang, the Addy Chair of Economics, put it: “After obtaining his PhD in Economics from Washington University (2011) and working as an industry economist at the FCC, he joined the Quello Center in the Department of Media and Information at Michigan State University as a Research Assistant Professor this past Fall. Aleks is currently serving as a member on a dissertation committee of one of our PhD […]
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22 Aug 2015

Three New Positions in Media and Information at MSU

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The Department of Media and Information at MSU is recruiting for three tenure-track positions. They are in the areas of: – media/information theory/research http://bit.ly/cas-theory – Internet economics http://bit.ly/cas-ie – health and data science http://bit.ly/cas-data Moreover, these are three of 15 academic positions opened across the College of Communication Arts & Sciences. See: http://cas.msu.edu/places/cas-deans-office/jobs/ Please let colleagues know of these positions, and please consider any of these positions for your own career future. Regards, Bill Dutton
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31 Aug 2014

Rejuvenating Policy Research and Practice by Johannes M. Bauer

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I often hear laments about the lack of attention of policy-makers to disciplines such as communications, Internet studies, political science, and sociology. Indeed, often it is scholars and advocates arguing from an economic, engineering and law perspective, who are heard. In my view, these disciplines have an inherent “epistemic advantage” over others because one of their driving questions is how to improve (or even “optimize”) the working of a system, either analytically or by trial and error. A classic example is David Clark’s motto, articulated at an IETF conference in the early 1980s, calling upon the community of Internet engineers […]
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