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Attention Economy

the earliest clear thinking by Herbert Simon in DESIGNING ORGANIZATIONS FOR AN IN FORMATION-RICH WORLD

books and articles

an article with incredible foresight. And the blog of the same author
Another excellent article by the same author ATTENTION SHOPPERS! The currency of the New Economy won't be money, but attention – A radical theory of value.

The question becomes if "the attention" can be measured as the capital is measured in money. It is possible that the attention acquires gradually a conventional monetary value (like FANGs did) or/and additional digital value can arise.

attention is the constraining factor in the future when capital is not

The rise of intangible investment is, Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake argue, an underappreciated cause of phenomena from economic inequality to stagnating productivity. Haskel and Westlake bring together a decade of research on how to measure intangible investment and its impact on national accounts, showing the amount different countries invest in intangibles, how this has changed over time, and the latest thinking on how to assess this.

Economists have typically lumped experiences in with services, but experiences are a distinct economic offering, as different from services as services are from goods

measuring attention

CrowdEmotion startup and the interview

Social networks and media

How heavy use of social media is linked to mental illness
Youngsters report problems with anxiety, depression, sleep and “FoMO”

Niall Ferguson: The Destructive Power of Social Networks

“The banking network didn’t have the resilience that a better network would have.”
“We will look back and view smartphones the way we view cigarettes and the way we make them available to children,”